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



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1880

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

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This publication is the second 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 partridges, quails, crakes and rails.

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 II
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, 1880
  • A. O. Hume, 1880
  • C. H. T. Marshall, 1880
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 snow partridge -- The black partridge or common francolin -- The painted partridge or southern francolin -- The eastern or Chinese francolin -- The chukor -- The seesee -- The grey partridge -- The kyah or swamp partridge -- The Tibetan partridge -- The common hill partridge -- The rufous-throated hill tridge -- The black-throated hill tridge -- The Bhutan hill partridge -- The Aracan hill partridge -- The brown-breasted hill tridge -- The green-legged wood partridge -- The Malayan wood partridge -- The western bamboo partridge -- The ferruginous wood partridge -- The red-crested wood-quail -- The mountain quail -- The jungle bush quail -- The rock bush quail -- The painted bush quail -- The eastern painted bush quail -- The common or grey quail -- The black-breasted or rain quail -- The blue-breasted or painted quail -- The Indian bustard quail -- The Indo-Malayan bustard quail -- The Burmo-Malayan button quail -- The Indian button quail -- The little button quail -- The Nicobar button quail -- Baillon's crake -- The little crake -- The spotted crake -- The ruddy crake -- Elwes's crake -- The brown and ashy crake -- The whitey-brown crake -- The Malayan banded crake -- The banded crake -- The Andamanese banded crake -- The blue-breasted banded rail -- The Andamanese banded rail -- The Indian water rail -- The water rail.
Copyright
  • Digitised images, All rights reserved, National Library Board Singapore, 2020