ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ORNITHOLOGY 
By E. BLYTH. 
Curator to the Museum of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 
We have already had occasion to express our obligations to Mr. 
Blyth, for his valuable contributions to the Ornithology of India 
published in our previous volumes, which his position as Curator of 
the Museum at Calcutta, assisted by his own activity and energy, 
and his now intimate knowledge of the Indian Fauna, afford him 
every qualification to give. We have at various times received 
additional drawings and notes, some of which should have been 
published before this time ; and we have now made arrangements 
that these should appear regularly, and as early as possible after 
they reach us. We shall place all Mr. Blyth’ s papers now under the 
above title, and will include among them the numerous drawings 
of nests and eggs, which our subscribers can arrange or not as they 
may think best, among the “ Illustrations of Foreign Oology.’ The 
drawings sent by Mr. Blyth are all executed by a native artist 
with mechanical truth, and we endeavour to preserve their charac- 
ter, rather than introduce accessaries which might be inapplicable. 
These figures we consider of much importance, as fixing the 
species indicated by Mr. Blyth in his various papers and catalogues, 
published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and in 
many instances also those of Mr. Jerdon, M‘Clelland and otherSj 
who have done good service to Indian Ornithology. 
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