A ROUGH TENTATIVE LIST OF THE BIRDS OF INDIA. 45 
INDEX TO THE ABBREVIATIONS OF THE NAMES OF AUTHORITIES 
GIVEN IN THE FOREGOING LIST. 
[With the names and dates of some of the older authors’ more 
important works, which most specially concern us.] 
Adams ... Dr. A. Leith Adams. 
Anders. ..» Dr. John Anderson. 
Anders., A. Andrew Anderson. 
Armstr. ... Dr. James Armstrong. 
Audouin ... J. V. Audouin. 
Baill. ... ?* L. A. J. Baillon. 
Baill ... Valentine Ball. 
Banks... Sir Joseph Banks. . 
Bart.  ... ? B. Sm. Barton. 
Beav. _... Captain R. C. Beavan. 
Bechst. ... J. M. Bechstein. see Gemeinniitzige Naturgeschichte 
Deutschlands, 1789-95, sé 
Edn.; 1801-1809, 2nd Edn. Fig. 
Naturgeschichte der Stuben 
vogel, 1812; Ornithologisches 
Taschenbuch, 1803. 
B. Ham.... Fr. Ham. Buchanan- 
: Hamilton. 
Blanf. ... W.T. Blanford. 
Blas. ... Dr. J. H. Blasius. 
Bly. ees Edward Blyth. 
Bodd. _ ... M. Boddaert. eee Table des Planches enluminéez 
d’Histoire Naturelle de M. 
d’Aubenton, 1783. 
Boie «. H. Boie. ae ce geschr, aus Ost-Ind. 
1832. 
Bonn, eee L’ Abbé Bonnaterre. ... Table Encyclopédique et Méthod- 
que des trois Régnes de la 
Nature, 1788-90. 
Bose. ... L. A. G. Bose. 
Bp. -e- Prince Charles Lucian Conspectus Generum Avium, 
Bonaparte. 1850-57. 
Brandt ... J. F. Brandt. 
Brehm «on CHEM Brehm. Beitrage zur Vogelkunde, 1820- 
22; Lehrbuch der Naturges- 
chichte aller Europaischen Vogel 
1823-24; Handbuch der Natur- 
geschichte aller Vogel Deut- 
schlands, 1831 ; Vogelfang, 1855. 
eee 
Brooks ... William Edwin Brooks. 
Bruch ... ? Bruch. se» Various papers in the Isis, 1824-32 
*In this and other cases in which I have prefixed a note of interrogation, | have 
been unable, at the moment, to make sure of the initials of the authority quoted. 
