Set of four books on Ornithology

a) Colonel A le Messurier, Game, Shore, and Water birds of India: With additional references to their allied species in other parts of the world, London: W Thacker and Co.; Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, spink and Co., 1904, fourth edition

xvi, 323 pages with "one hundred and eighty natural size illustrations from actual specimens" and 5 large folding tables; green cloth boards with gilt to the spine, blind stamped border, title and a birds head on the front board
10.5 x 7.25 x 1.25 in (26.5 x 18.5 x 3.5 cm)

b) Douglas Dewar, Birds of the Indian Hills, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1915

264 pages; hardbound with debosed title to the front board and gilr text at the spine
7.5 x 5 x 1.5 in (19.3 x 13 x 4 cm)

This book is a companion volume to the bird volumes of The Fauna of British India. It covers the birds of the Western and Eastern Himalayas.

c) F Finn, The Waterfowl of India and Asia, Calcutta and Simla: Thacker Spink & Co., 1921

x + 126 pages including 21 black and white plates; harbound pictorial boards
7 x 5 x 0.25 in (18 x 13 x 1 cm)

d) R G Wright , The Ducks of India: Their Habits Breeding Grounds and Migrations, London: H F and G Weatherby, 1925

230 pages including 22 coloured plates; original binding
10.25 x 6.5 in (26 x 17 cm)

(Set of four)

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