JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Part II— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 



No. I.— 1868. 



Ornithological Observations in the Sutlej valley, N. W. Himalaya; 

 by P. Stoliczka, Esq., Ph. D. 



Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of India. 

 [Received 18th July 1867.] 



When writing the preface to the third volume of the 'Birds of India/ 

 Dr. Jerdon remarks that the publication of the two former volumes 

 of the same work had already attracted great interest to Indian 

 Ornithology. The very large amount of the most accurate statements 

 as to specific distinctions, on the habits and on the geographical 

 distribution afford indeed facilities of no ordinary kind, and they 

 not only serve to direct other observations, but they are useful in 

 most cases also as a guide to the record of any additional facts, which 

 further inquiry may bring forward. Had it been possible to add 

 illustrations of at least the more important types of each family, 

 the student in India could scarcely have wished for a better Manual 

 of Indian Ornithology. 



During my geological wanderings through the N. W. Himalaya, 

 I have made various observations on Indian Zoology and Botany, 

 specially with the object of collecting materials for a fauna and flora 

 of Western Tibet. Only for a comparatively short time have I been 

 enabled to pay any attention to the fauna of the Cis- Himalayan 



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