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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Clapham" data-source="post: 3482449" data-attributes="member: 101256">Unfortunately not; as far as Gavrilenko 1917 is concerned it's just a general overview. I fed the relevant paragraph into Google Translate and this is what it gave me:"The primary task of ornithological research - inventory of the avifauna (birds establish the species composition). In 1917 came the list birds Poltava province, prepared by NI Gavrilenko (Gavrilenko, 1917). The scientist noted that the lack of time (joining the ranks of the troops and, consequently, a possible break in the long ornithological classes) does not allow him to collect this amount of factual material, which is desirable for a comprehensive study of birds within the province. NI Gavrilenko decided to organize and publish materials, because he believed that they were even in the rough of interest to ornithologists and zoogeographers. It commented on the list of the province of birds, which gives general information (drawings, dwelling, behavior and way of life, body, color, feathers, etc.) about 288 birds in the region. In the preface to issue NI Gavrilenko found it necessary to point out that the study of the local avifauna is not over, but "... even the publication of these is not completed izsledovany province, which in the words of MA Marmot "remains the least studied in relation to the ornithological" in a timely manner and will make their share in the total Skarbnitsya "(Gavrilenko, 1917, p. 21)."I haven't edited that to fix the obvious flaws because it clearly doesn't provide the information you're looking for. As for "MA Marmot", that's M. A. Menzbier -- he has a marmot named after him but why Google Translate thinks he should be called "Marmot"... anyway that's a diversion from the topic at hand.</blockquote>

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