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Title: Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872 Kistnarajoo, C. V., lithographer R. E. B., lithographer Leonard, lithographer Miller, lithographer Linn, lithographer Hunt, Phineas R., 1816-1878, printer American Mission Press (Madras, India), printer Reeve Brothers, printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Madras : Printed by P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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nd theywere not allowed to finish all the copies. In consequence of this a difference, more markedin some than others, wiU be found among the plates mentioned above ; and I trust that thisexplanation may prove sufficient to those who have the opportunity of comparing the two sets. The 2d No. being entirely printed and partially coloui-ed, will appear at no verydistant interval, and the nature of its contents wiU probably make it more attractive than thepresent number. Should the publication of the present series of fifty buds be, as there is everyreason to anticipate, successful enough to repay the Author for the heavy expenses he hasincurred, it wiU, immediately on completion, be followed by a second set of fifty more bhds,and the two series will then include a very considerable number of the unfigm-ed speciesof Peninsular India. A classified Index will be given with the concluding No. which will notice anycorrections of nomenclature that may be required. Nelloke : November 3d, 1843.
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