THE 



BIRDS OF INDIA; 



BEIXG 



A NATIRAL USTI8SY 



OF ALL 



THE BIRDS KNOWN TO INHABIT CONTINENTAL INDIA: 



Descriptions of the Species, Genera, Families, Tribes, and Orders, and a 

 Brief Notice of such Families as are not found in India, 



MAKING IT A 



MA^yAL. OF OBf^lTHOLOGY 



SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR INDIA. 



T. C. JERDON, 



SURGEON MAJOR, MADRAS ARMY, 

 Author of " Illustrations of Indian Ornithology." 



VOL. II.-PART I. 



PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY THE MILITARY ORPHAN PRESS, 

 6, BANKSHALL STREET. 



1863. 



