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The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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by Allan O. Hume, Edited by Eugene William Gates
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Title: The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Author: Allan O. Hume
Release Date: August 5, 2004 [eBook #13117]
Language: English
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THE NESTS AND EGGS OF INDIAN BIRDS, VOLUME 1
by
ALLAN O. HUME, C.B.
Second Edition.
Edited by Eugene William Gates Author of "A Handbook to the Birds of British Burmah and of the Birds in the Fauna of British India,"
With Four Portraits.
London
1889
[Illustration: ALLAN OCTAVIAN HUME]
[Illustration: ALERE FLAMMAM]
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
I have long regretted my inability to issue a revised edition of 'Nests and Eggs.' For many years after the first Rough Draft appeared, I went on laboriously accumulating materials for a re-issue, but subsequently circumstances prevented my undertaking the work. Now, fortunately, my friend Mr. Eugene Gates has taken the matter up, and much as I may personally regret having to hand over to another a task, the performance of which I should so much have enjoyed, it is some consolation to feel that the readers, at an
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
by Allan O. Hume