Annotated Bibliography - The Kingdom of Rarities - page 183

Chapter 2 . The Gift of Isolation
Beehler, Bruce M. “The Lost World.” Living Bird 25, no. 4 (2006): 15-24. Conservation In-
ternational's Rapid Assessment Program expedition to the Foja Mountains of Indonesia
New Guinea.
———. Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest . New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2008.
A naturalist's travels in tropical countries around the world for research and nature conser-
vation, with a special focus on New Guinea.
Diamond, Jared M. “Distributional Ecology of New Guinea Birds: Recent Ecological and
Biogeographical Theories Can Be Tested on the Bird Communities of New Guinea.”
Science 179, no. 4075 (1973): 759-69.
A magisterial overview of the ecology and distribution of the rich bird fauna of the island of
New Guinea.
Frith, Clifford B., and Bruce M. Beehler. “The Birds of Paradise.” Scientific American 261
(December 1989): 117-23.
A review of the ecological underpinnings of the polygamous mating systems of birds of
paradise.
———. The Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae . New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
A monographic treatment of the biology of the birds of paradise.
Frith, Clifford B., and Dawn W. Frith. The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae . New York: Ox-
ford University Press, 2004.
A monographic treatment of the biology of bowerbirds.
Gressitt, J. Linsley, ed. Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea . 2 vols. The Hague: W.
Junk, 1982.
A multiauthored treatment of the ecology and biogeography of the island of New Guinea.
Marshall, Andrew J., and Bruce M. Beehler, eds. The Ecology of Papua . 2 vols. Singapore:
Periplus, 2007.
Fifty-two chapters on the natural history of western New Guinea, contributed by more than
sixty expert authors.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of
Paradise: A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature . New York: Dover,
1962.