The Fauna Of British India Birds

Author : William Thomas Blanford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333536220
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Vol. 4 written by William Thomas Blanford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Vol. 4: Birds The Vertebrate animals of British India have now been described for the first time in a single uniform series, consisting of eight volumes, of which this is the last to appear. The work comprises two volumes on Fishes by the late Dr. E. Day, one on Reptiles and Batrachians by Mr. G. Boulenger, and two on Birds by Mr. E. W'. Oates; the remaining two volumes of Birds and one on Mammals, together with the editing of the whole, having been my own contribution to the undertaking. Five volumes on Inverte brata - four on the Moths of British India by Sir G. F. Hampson, and one on the Hymenoptera by Colonel C. T. Bingham - have also been published on the same plan. The work has fully occupied me during the fifteen years that have now elapsed since my retirement from Indian service; but the completion of the Vertebrate series would not have been practicable without the valuable Cooperation of the able naturalists already mentioned. This volume contains the Pigeons, the Gallinaceous birds, and the numerous tribes commonly classed together as Waders and Swimming birds. It thus includes all the Game Birds, both of land and water - an arrangement which may be found convenient, although good separate works on the subject exist, containing fuller details than are consistent with the limits of the present publication. One part of 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.