Nests and eggs of Indian birds : rough draft / by Allan Hume.

  • Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912.
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nests and eggs of Indian birds : rough draft / by Allan Hume. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. ' ( ' In my conspectus of the Avi Eauna of India and its Depend- encies, all I have to record in regard to each species is divided into sections. Section IV refers to nidification and eggs’5 under two heads : (a) Within our limits; (b) Elsewhere. Of all the sections and sub-sections, none is so incomplete as TV a. Although I have nearly sixty correspondents in various parts of the Empire, who are all, more or less, aiding me in collecting materials for my great work, yet in regard to this particular sub-section scarcely any progress is made. Everybody whom I press to aid me in this matter insists that until they know what I have on record and where information is most specially required, they can work to no purpose. Under these circumstances, I have determined to print off separately, in this proof form Section TVa of the conspectus, in the hopes of thus securing more satisfactory co-operation in completing it. This rough draft is miserably imperfect. I have not even had time to correct the press properly, but still it will serve the purpose it has in view,—viz., of informing all those who are inter- ested in the work what I already have on record and wherein I most especially require additional information. I earnestly entreat all who can do so to send me additions and corrections at their early convenience. I may note that the omission of any species from this com- pilation indicates that I have as yet been unable to obtain any authentic information as to its nidification within our limits.