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



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1881

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

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This publication is the third 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 of some species of the game birds such as cranes, swans, teals, ducks, woodcocks, snipes and godwits.

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 III
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, 1881
  • A. O. Hume, 1881
  • C. H. T. Marshall, 1881
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 sarus -- The snow-wreath or Siberian crane -- The common crane -- The demoiselle crane -- The mute swan -- The hooper -- Bewick's swan -- The grey lag goose -- The bean goose -- The pink-footed goose -- The white-fronted or laughing goose -- The dwarf goose -- The barred-headed goose -- The nukhta or comb duck -- The cotton teal -- The whistling teal -- The larger whistling teal -- The ruddy shelldrake or Brahminy duck -- The shelldrake or burrow duck -- The shoveller -- The white-winged wood-duck -- The mallard -- The grey or spot-bill duck -- The pink-headed duck -- The gadwall -- The pintail -- The wigeon -- The common teal -- The garganey or blue-winged teal -- The clucking or Baikal teal -- The crested or bronze-capped teal -- The marbled teal -- The oceanic teal -- The pochard or dun-bird -- The red-crested pochard -- The white-eyed pochard -- The scaup -- The tufted pochard -- The golden-eye or garrot -- The white-faced stiff-tail duck -- The smew -- The goosander or merganser -- The red-breasted merganser -- The wood-cock -- The wood-snipe -- The eastern solitary snipe -- The pintail snipe -- The common or fantail snipe -- The Jack snipe -- The painted snipe -- The snipe-billed godwit -- Armstrong's yellow-shanks -- The black-tailed godwit -- The bar-tailed godwit -- Appendix -- Figures of eggs -- Index.
Copyright
  • Digitised images, All rights reserved, National Library Board Singapore, 2020