Perhaps you might better translate the title as "Bird migration boundaries of
Russia" or "Russsian bird migration boundaries". I think the book is not about
the lines on the maps, but rather what they represent.
P. Henningsen
Norman Kane wrote:
> Many thanks to Messrs. Wesselman & Kroll for clarifying the meaning of this
> elusive word. It appears in the heading of Middendorff's treatise on bird
> migration in Russia
> (St.Petersburg, 1855) as "Die Isepiptesen Russlands." I still don't have
> a one-word
> definition so "lines on maps showing bird migration" will have to
> do. Again, my thanks.
> Norman Kane
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