REFERENCE EDITION. 
Ex “STRAY FEATHERS,” Vor: VIII 
A ROUGH TENTATIVE LIST OF THE 
BIRDS OF INDIA, 
[CorrecteD TO Marcu Isr, 1879.] 
Ar the earnest and repeated requests of numerous subscri- 
bers, I publish the subjoined very crude and tentative, List or 
THE Birps oF InpIA. 
It has been very hurriedly put together to meet an urgent 
and crying want, and will doubtless prove to embody innumer- 
able errors and to require many additions as well as corrections 
In the matter of generic names, it will certainly be especially 
open to criticism, as I have not yet given much attention to 
generic synonymy, nor have I, except in a very few cases, made 
up my mind as to what genera have priority, which should 
be retained intact, which subdivided, which rejected. 
I ought, perhaps, however to note here that I have employed 
a few generic names, chiefly my own, which are doubtless not 
generally known, wiz. :— 
Ocyceros, (Nests and Eggs, Rough Draft, 113, 1873). Type 
Buceros birostris, Scop. 
