Capitolo 15
toward west from storms, it started to choose on a living decent on all the
islands, and you/he/she has been since then permanent residents to the immense one,
terror and uneasiness of our smallest song-birds. This way the more old man the
archipelago got the less opportunity it was there of taking of local variation
puts to some great degree, because the equilibrium of the life every day grew
more from near to resemble to that in that every kind had gone away behind him
his/her native European or African continent.
I said a small a long time ago me we had anybody mammalian in the islands. In that self
it was not right. I would have had to say me, anybody earthling
mammalian. Bat a little Spaniard was stolen once from us by a raw
nor'easter, and taken on immediately his/her abode among the caverns of ours
archipelago, where it bends to this day after our flies and coleopters.
This seemed to me to very evidently show the advantage that flew
animals have in the matter of cosmopolitan dispersion; for while it was being
rather impossible for rapes, mice or squirrels to cross which he interposes
belt of three hundred leagues of sea, their small hauled relationship the
circle-mouse, did rather in safe the trip through on his really leathery
vans, and without the greatest difficulty that a swallow or a wood-pigeon.
The bugs of my archipelago tell a lot of the same history as the
birds and the plants. Winged kind has also been standing here to a great,
advantage. The to be sure more first butterflies and bees that have arrived
of fern-dressed period was dead of hunger for lack of honey; but as soon as
the valleys started to be entangled thickly with composite, harebells and
myrtle sweet-perfumed plant bushes on, these bugs that you/they nectar-eat established
them with success, and held their race true from occasional
it crosses with fresh arrivals blown later to sea. The development of
the coleopters that I have looked with far greater interest, as they supposed fresh
forms very more quickly under their new conditions of limited food