Capitolo 12
earth-snails. But as past very long periods often without a new individual
kind that is introduced in the group, some kind to which has handled once
establish on some of the islands remained usually for centuries
unperturbed from new arrivals, and so it had a lot of opportunity to adapt
it perfectly from the natural selection to the new conditions. The
consequence was, that out of of the seventy known earth-snails now in the
islands, thirty-two had supposed specific characteristics distinguished first the
man's advent, while thirty-seven (many of what, I think, me never
noticed up to the introduction of cultivated plants) it is common to mine
you gather with Europe or with the other islands of Atlantic. The most greater part of these, me
believes, it entered with man and his/her agriculture that it bewilders.
As to the pond and river it goes to footstep of snail, till now how I could observe, them above all
contacts there later, being brought in the egg on the feet of lost waders
or water-birds that gradually the peopled the island after the Glacial one
epoch.
Birds and all the other creatures now volatricis are very abundant in all the
islands; but I could tell him gods done curious and interesting, also,
as to the way of their arrival and the vicissitudes of them
setup. For example, during the age of the Beds of Forest in Europe a
lost greater bullfinch was driven out to sea from a violent storm, and he perched
finally on a bush to Fayal. Me for first I wondered me if he would effect
a setup. But to that duration that any seeds or fruits are all right for greater bullfinches
to eat existed on the islands. Anchor, as it resulted, this detail
to greater bullfinch it happened to have in his/her crop many seeds not digested of
European plants were precisely all right to the taste of greater bullfinch; then when he died
on the stain, these seeds, while germinating abundantly, it gave increase to a whole
valleyful of proper plants for greater bullfinches to feed on. Now,
there was not however, any greater bullfinch to eat them. For a lot of time, indeed,