Articles liés à The Birds of India Volume 1
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The want of brief, but comprehensive. Manuals of the Natural History of, India has been long felt by all interested in such inquiries. At the present, it is necessary to search through voluminous transactions of learned Societies, and scientific Journals, to obtain any general acquaintance with what has been already ascertained regarding the Fauna of I ndia, and, excepting to a few more favorably placed, even these are inaccessible. The issue of a Manual, which should comprise all available information in sufficient detail for the discrimination and identification of such objects of Natural History as might be met with, without being rendered cumbrous by minutiae of synonymy or of history, has therefore long been considered a desideratum. To meet this want it is proposed to publish a series of such Manuals for all the Vertebrated Animals of I ndia, containing characters of all the classes, orders, families, and genera, and descriptions of all the species of all Mammals, Birds, Eeptiles, and Fishes, found in I ndia. The geographic limits referred to in this Work will be, on the North the water-shed of the Himalayas; on the East the Teesta river, to its junction with the Brahmapootra, and thence down the latter river to the Bay of Bengal; on the West the Indus from its exit from the hills to Kurrachee; and on the South Cape Comorin. The object will be to enable Naturalists and Travellers to identify any animals they may meet with, and for this purpose the descriptions, without being minute, will be ample for discrimination. The habits and resorts of the different animals wi Ube described as far as is known, and their geographical distribution investigated, and on these points the authors own experience in many parts of the country, from Darjeeling to Trichinopoly, wi Uenable him to give much new information. Short observations on the anatomy of the various fam
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- ÉditeurBook on Demand Ltd.
- Date d'édition2014
- ISBN 10 5519082146
- ISBN 13 9785519082143
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages602
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