In the case of rails there is no evidence that they move in flocks; however, they are among the most successful colonizers and are on many of the oceanic islands in the tropical and subtropical oceans.
Species of oceanic birds which are restricted in their distribution to Polynesia and some adjacent islands and which range to Micronesia, either as visitors or residents, include Puffinus tenuirostris, P.
The presence of elevated islands containing phosphate, resulting from the deposition of guano by oceanic birds, is some indication of the length of time during which these birds have been present.
Records of nestings are few; field work in the future probably will yield evidence that more kinds of oceanic birds are actually resident in the Micronesian islands.
The islands of Micronesia are oceanic islands and were seemingly formed independently of any present day continental land mass.
In this connection it is pertinent to recall that the islands of Micronesia are oceanic and have apparently been formed independently of any continental land mass.
The formation of species among insects in Samoa and other oceanic islands.
The islands of the vast Pacific basin offer havens for many kinds of oceanic birds.
This oceanic bird differs from other petrels and shearwaters of Micronesia by the presence of a white abdomen in contrast with dark plumage on upper parts, throat, and breast.
Kandavu, “Report on the Petrology of Oceanic Islands,” vol.
The fact that they belonged to this stock clearly shews that they inhabited the Old World; but not Australia nor any oceanic island, as we may infer from the laws of geographical distribution.
Man, it may be added, does not appear to have aboriginally inhabited any oceanic island; and in this respect he resembles the other members of his class.
This would be a parallel case with that of those large and heavy birds, which from inhabiting oceanic islands have not been exposed to the attacks of beasts of prey, and have consequently lost the power of using their wings for flight.
I do not believe that any edible or valuable plant, except the canary-grass, has been derived from an oceanic or uninhabited island.
It is well known that several birds, belonging to different Orders, and inhabiting oceanic islands, have their wings greatly reduced in size and are incapable of flight.
But I was mightily pleased to see that one of the gentlemen that do the heavy articles for the celebrated "Oceanic Miscellany" misquoted Campbell's line without any excuse.
A geographer who was asked to describe the tides of Massachusetts Bay, would have to recognize the circumstance that they are a limited manifestation of a greatoceanic movement.
These oceanic streams are regular, though not regularly defined.
But, short as was the time, during its continuance the sun had produced a wonderful change in that oceanic panorama.
But it is not my purpose to attempt a dissertation either on winds or oceanic streams.
No one yet knows to what distance any of the oceanic birds go to sea; for my own part, I do not believe there is one in the whole tribe that can be relied on, in pointing out the vicinity of land.
But we had now been so often deceived by these birds, that we could no longer look upon them, nor indeed upon any other oceanic birds, which frequent high latitudes, as sure signs of the vicinity of land.
Foreign adventures and oceaniccommerce alone could satisfy the Parisians and open up new careers for the Prætorian chiefs, whom the First Consul alone really feared.
Under the ancien régime, the trade of the French portion of San Domingo is reported to have represented more than half of her oceanic commerce.
As soon as he saw that his policy was about to provoke another war with Britain long before he was ready for it, he decided to forego his oceanic schemes and to concentrate his forces on his European frontiers.
The remark has been largely justified by events; and doubtless he discerned in the agrarian reforms of the Revolution an influence unfavourable to that racial dispersion which, under wise guidance, builds up an oceanic empire.
The Peace of Amiens left France the arbitress of Europe, and, by restoring to her all her lost colonies, it promised to place her in the van of the oceanic and colonizing peoples.
A comparison of the dates at which he set on foot his oceanic schemes will show that they nearly all had their inception in the closing months of 1801 and in the course of the following year.
The determination of the French Government to adopt a forward colonial and oceanic policy is clearly seen in its proposals made at the close of the year 1801.
Oceanic population from Madagascar to Japan and Australia is of Hamite descent, by the regular structure of all the languages; while this seldom happens in America as in China and Tartary.
This supposition of an oceanic irruption has been the source of two other hypotheses on the origin of the smaller West India Islands.
South America, curve in upon, and aided by the oceanic currents, supply, abundantly, the N.
A vast amount of heat is transported from the tropical to the temperate and frozen regions of the earth by these great oceanic currents.
Heat is also carried, and in quantities which exert very considerable influence upon the weather, from the tropics to the poles by the great oceanic currents which flow unceasingly from one to the other.
A like oceanic current exists in the Pacific Ocean, the influence of which may also be traced upon the map by the elevation of the isothermal lines at the northern extremity of that ocean, and upon the north-west coast of North America.
The increased quantities of rain which fall at the focus of precipitation there, from Oregon up, are doubtless much enhanced by the equatorial oceanic current which flows over opposite that part of the continent.
That point sighted, our little ship glided along the coast, carried southward by the oceanic current at the rate of three knots an hour or thereabouts.
The numerous trans-oceanic analogies, more or less clearly defined, which are observed, may have resulted partially from this communication, although they do not of themselves necessarily imply such an agency.
Complete isolation, as in an oceanic island, will no doubt enable natural selection to act more rapidly, for several reasons.
A very small proportion of these would carry the seeds of Alpine plants; while an almost infinitesimal fraction of these latter would convey the few seeds attached to them safely to an oceanic island or remote mountain.
In the same way we may account for the extreme rarity of Leguminosae in all oceanic islands.
Its reptiles and birds are highly peculiar and more numerous than in any truly oceanic island.
It is remarkable that in some of the birds of oceanic islands the reduction is little if at all greater than in domestic birds, as in the water-hen of Tristan d'Acunha.
They all contain indigenous mammalia or batrachia, and generally a much greater variety of birds, reptiles, insects, and plants, than do the oceanic islands.
Fleet said he had had five or six years' experience at sea and was lookout on the Oceanic prior to going on the Titanic.
But no especial change in ship-building was introduced until 1870, when the Oceanic Company, now known as the White Star Line, built the Britannic and Germanic.
Great flocks of these haunt the forests of the warmer regions of the Old World, especially Africa, India, and the Oceanic Archipelago.
Should one of them discover the remains of a dead whale, or other large oceanic mammalia, it apprises the rest of the flock, and immediately they all pour down upon their booty, uttering the most discordant cries.
No Oceanic Serpent is known of gigantic dimensions, such as is currently alleged to have been seen by unscientific observers.
I ought to have known beforehand that terrestrial animals of the higher types never by any chance reach an oceanic island in any part of this planet.
In one rookery there were many varieties of these oceanic birds, and a species of booby that seems to be peculiar to Christmas Island.
When this is impracticable, nutrient enemata are called for.
If the patient's health is below par, good nourishing food, tonics, and general hygienic treatment are indicated.
The distribution of volcanoes is not uniform, but, on the contrary, volcanic vents appear in definite zones or belts, either upon the margins of the continents or included within the oceanic areas (Fig.
Almost the entire area of the lithosphere is included either in the so-called continental plateau or platform, in the oceanic platform, or in the slope which separates the two.
This volcano girdle is by no means a perfect one, for in addition to the principal festoons of the western border there are many secondary ones, and still other arcs are found well toward the center of the oceanic area.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oceanic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: marine; maritime; nautical; navigational; oceanic; pelagic; salty; seafaring
