The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon. Volume I



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1879

The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon. Volume I

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This publication is the first volume of a three-volume work on the game birds of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It gives a broad-ranging account of the habits, distribution and variability of the game birds of India, Burmah (Burma, present-day Myanmar) and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), as well as a number of Malaysian species of birds. The volumes are accompanied by chromolithographs of the birds. This volume provides details on some species of the game birds such as bustards, floricans, sand-grouses, pea-fowls, tragopans, kalijs, pheasants, jungle-fowls, snow-cocks and spur-fowls.

Subjects

Game and game-birds--India Game and game-birds--Burma Game and game-birds--Sri Lanka

Categories

Wildlife

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Additional Details

Title
The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon. Volume I
Creators
  • Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912
Subject
  • Game and game-birds--India
  • Game and game-birds--Burma
  • Game and game-birds--Sri Lanka
Publisher
  • National Library Board Singapore, 1879
  • A. O. Hume, 1879
  • C. H. T. Marshall, 1879
Contributors
  • John Bastin
  • Marshall, C. H. T. (Charles Henry Tilson), 1841-1927
Digital Description
application/pdf, ill. (chiefly col.)
Provenance
  • The resource described is part of the National Library Board’s Singapore Collection, digitised as part of the NL-NAS Masterplan by Whole-of-Government (WOG) panel vendor (Konica) in 2020/2021. It was stored in hard disks and kept at Library Supply Centre prior to ingestion into Rosetta.
Table of Contents
  • The great bustard -- The little bustard -- The great Indian bustard -- The houbara -- The Bengal florican -- The lesser florican or likh -- The Thibetan sand-grouse -- The large or black-bellied sand-grouse -- The spotted sand-grouse -- The coronetted sand-grouse -- The painted sand-grouse -- The close-barred sand-grouse -- The common sand-grouse -- The pintailed sand-grouse -- The common pea-fowl -- The eastern or Burmese pea-fowl -- The argus pheasant -- The grey peacock-pheasant -- The Malayan peacock-pheasant -- Hodgson's eared-pheasant -- The Nicobar megapode -- The moonal -- The crestless moonal -- The Indian crimson tragopan -- The western tragopan -- The grey-bellied tragopan -- The blood-pheasant -- The koklass -- The Nepal koklass -- The cheer -- The white-crested kalij -- The Nepal kalij -- The black-backed kalij -- The black-breasted kalij -- The Aracan silver pheasant -- Crawfurd's sliver pheasant -- The vermicellated pheasant -- The fireback -- The red jungle-fowl -- The grey jungle-fowl -- The Ceylon jungle-fowl -- The red spur-fowl -- The painted spur-fowl -- The Ceylon spur-fowl -- The Himalayan snow-cock -- The Thibetan snow-cock.
Copyright
  • Digitised images, All rights reserved, National Library Board Singapore, 2020