Abstract
HERCULES, as in our schooldays we used to be told, once took the trouble of cleaving asunder the isthmus which in his time, whenever that was, joined Europe and Africa. Colonel Irby has been at the pains of reuniting the two continents, not indeed actually tut for the purposes of his work; and has thus undone, so far as ornithology is concerned, the labour of the demigod. Though we certainly have no fault to find with the exploit which gave the waters of the Atlantic access to the Mediterranean basin, and fully admit the advantage which has thereby accrued to most European nations, and to our own in particular, it must be confessed that we deem more highly the feat of our modern hero than the prowess of him of antiquity.
The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar.
By Lieut.-Col. L. Howard L. Irby, &c. (London: R. H. Porter, 6, Tenterden Street; Dulau and Co., Soho Square, 1875.)
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The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar . Nature 12, 364–365 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012364a0
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