'f' ■ THE 



,./ 



Vb- 



BIRDS OF INDIA 



BEING 



^ A NATSIAI llSI§FxY 



or ALL 59 f5.(5'4-') 



THE BIRDS KNOWN TO INHABIT CONTINENTAL INDIA: 



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

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



MAKING IT A 



SPECiALLY ADAPTZD FOR INDIA, 



BY 



T. C. JERDON, 



SURGEON MAJOR, MADRAS ARMY, 

 Author of " Illustrations of Indian Ornitltology. 



VOL. I. 



PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY THE MILITARY ORPHAN PRESS. 

 G, BANKSHALL STREET. 



1862. 



