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The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A 



(descriptive handbook of all the known species of Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera 

 inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbour- 

 ing countries along the border. By Major G. F. L. Marshall, R.E., and 

 L. de Niceville. Vol. I, Royal 8vo., containing 340 pages of letterpress, 

 18 full-page Autotype and Colored Plates and 14. Woodcuts, Price, by 

 V. P. P., Rs, 14-12. 



Volume II gives a complete history of the sub-family N^^mphnhna and the family 

 Lemoniida ; the number of genera occurring within strict Indian and Ceylon 

 limits reaching 94 and the species 616; in addilion to these numbers very 

 many more descriptions of both genera and species are given from the 

 Malay Peninsula, &c. Royal Svo., 332pp., and Autotype Plates, Price, by 

 V. P.' P., Rs. 14-12. 



Vol. Ill is in preparation. 



T]ie Game Birds of India. By Hume and Marshall. In 



3 Vols., Royal 8vo., 144 beautifully colored plates, 98opp, letterpress. Price 

 reduced to Rs. 50 ; or, with postage, per V.P,P., Rs. 52-8. 



Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency. 



By Lieut. H. Edwin Barnes, D.A.C., Bombay Commissariat Department. Royal 

 8vo., 480 pages, bound in cloth. Price, Rs, 7 ; or, with postage, V.P.P. 

 Rs. 7-8. 



The want of a cheap Handbook to the Birds of the Presidency has been long felt. All 

 previous works on the subject being so costly as to be within the reach of but very few, and it 

 is to meet this want that the present Work is published. Its object is to enable students in Orni- 

 thology, sportsmen and others, to identify any bird they may meet with. About 630 birds are 

 fully described and many of these are not to be found in Jerdon's " JBirds of India." To these 

 descriptions, brief notices on the distribution, life, habits, nidification, &c., of the various birds 

 are added. The tract of country referred to embraces all those parts of India which are garrisoned 

 by Bombay Troops, viz., Sind, Rajpootana, Guzerat, the Deccan, and parts of Central India. 



My Scrap Book ; or, Rough Notes on Indian Oology and 



Ornithology. Edited by Allan Hume. Vol. 1, 422 pp. Price, with postage, 

 Rs. 5-8. 



Indian Ornithological Collectors' Vade Mecum. 



(Second and Revised Edition.) Containing brief practical instructions 

 for collecting, preserving, packing and keeping specimen of Birds, Eggs, 

 Nests, Feathers and Skeletons. By Allan Hume. Price, with postage, 

 Re. 1-2. 



Reprint of the British Association Rules for Zoolo- 

 gical Nomenclature. Price, with postage, 10 annas. 



