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 ZOOTOGY OF SIND;" 



" THE REPTILES OF SIND," &C. 



VOLTJIMIIE I. :F.AJEWr II. 



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LONDON : RICHARDSON & Co., 13 PALL MALL. 

 BOMBAY : EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, BYCULLA. 



1887. 



