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Title: A Bird Calendar for Northern India

Author: Douglas Dewar

Release Date: April 23, 2006 [EBook #18237]

Language: English

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Produced by Ron Swanson

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_
ANIMALS OF NO IMPORTANCE
THE INDIAN CROW: HIS BOOK
BOMBAY DUCKS
BIRDS OF THE PLAINS
INDIAN BIRDS
JUNGLE FOLK
GLIMPSES OF INDIAN BIRDS
BIRDS OF THE INDIAN HILLS

_IN COLLABORATION WITH FRANK FINN_
THE MAKING OF SPECIES

A BIRD CALENDAR FOR NORTHERN INDIA

BY DOUGLAS DEWAR

LONDON: W. THACKER & CO., CREED LANE, E.C.
CALCUTTA AND SIMLA: THACKER, SPINK & CO.
1916

WM. BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND.

I am indebted to the editor of _The Pioneer_ for permission to
republish the sketches that form this calendar, and to Mr. A. J.
Currie for placing at my disposal his unpublished notes on the birds
of the Punjab.

Full descriptions of all the Indian birds of which the doings are
chronicled in this calendar are to be found in the four volumes of the
_Fauna of British India_ devoted to birds; popular descriptions of the
majority are given in my _Indian Birds_.

D. D.

HARROW,
_January 1916_.

CONTENTS
PAGE
JANUARY . . . . . . 1
FEBRUARY . . . . . 18
MARCH . . . . . . . 33
APRIL . . . . . . . 61
MAY . . . . . . . . 79
JUNE . . . . . . . 103
JULY . . . . . . . 116
AUGUST . . . . . . 136
SEPTEMBER . . . . . 152
OCTOBER . . . . . . 165
NOVEMBER . . . . . 178
DECEMBER . . . . . 189
GLOSSARY . . . . . 199
INDEX . . . . . . . 201

JANUARY

Up--let us to the fields away,
And breathe the fresh and balmy air.
MARY HOWITT.

Take nine-and-twenty sunny, bracing English May days, steal from March
as many still, starry nights, to these add two rainy mornings and
evenings, and the product will resemble a typical Indian January. This
is the coolest month in the year, a month when the climate is
invigorating and the sunshine temperate. But even in January the