THE 



BIRDS OF INDIA; 



BEING 



A MAT9&AL IIST8&Y 



OF ALL 



THE BIRDS KNOWN TO INHABIT CONTINENTAL INDIA: 



Descriptions of the Species, Genera, Families, Tribes, and Orders, and a 

 Brief Notice of such Families as are not found in India, 



MAKING IT A 



SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR INDIA. 



T. C. JERDON, 



SURGEON MAJOR, MADRAS ARMY, 

 Author of " Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.' 1 '' 



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VOL. II.-PART I. 



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PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY THE MILITARY ORPHAN PRESS, 

 6, BANKSHALL STREET. 



1863. 



MAR 2 7 1984 



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