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The Australo-Papuan bird migration system: another consequence of Wallace's Line

Hugh DingleDepartment of Entomology & Center for Animal Behavior, University of California, Davis, CA95616, USA.
Pages 95-108 | Received 16 Jun 2003, Accepted 27 Jan 2004, Published online: 22 Dec 2016

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