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, AND COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS, 



BY 



JAMES A. MURRAY, ! 



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



MANAGER, VICT. NAT. HIST. INSTITUTE ; 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 SIN 



" THE REPTILES OF SIND," &C. 



VOLUME II. PART I. 





LOXDOX : TRUBNER & Co., LUDGATE H; 

 BOMBAY : EDUCATION SOCIETY'S F 



1888. 



