THE 



AVIFAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA 



AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. 



A SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT, 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE KNOWN 



SPECIES OF BIRDS INHABITING BRITISH INDIA, 



OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR HABITS, NIDIFICATION, &c., 



TABLES OF THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL 



DISTRIBUTION IN PERSIA, BELOOCHISTAN, 



AFGHANISTAN, SIND, PUNJAB, N. W. PROVINCES, 



AND THE PENINSULA OF INDIA GENERALLY, 



WITH 



WOODCUTS, LITHOGRAPHS, AMD COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS, 



BY 



JAMES A. MURRAY, 



1 1 



MEM. NAT. HIST. SOC. AND OF THE ANTHROP. SOC., BOMBAY ; 

 MANAGER, VICT. NAT. HIST. INSTITUTE J LATE CURATOR KURRACHEE MUNICIPAL 



LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ; AUTHOR OF " A HAND-BOOK TO THE GEOLOGY, 



BOTANY, AND ZOOLOGY OF SIND ;" " THE PLANTS AND DRUGS OF SIND ;" 



" KURRACHEE TO KANDAHAR ;" " THE VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY OF SIND ;" 



" THE REPTILES OF SIND," &C. 



VOLUME I. 



LONDON : TRUBNER & Co., LUDGATE HILL. 

 BOMBAY : EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, BYCULLA. 



1888. 



