Birds of the Indian Hills
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About This Book
Douglas Dewar (1875-1957) was a barrister, British civil servant in India and an ornithologist. He wrote widely in newspapers such as the The Madras Mail, Pioneer, Times of India and periodicals such as the Civil and Military Gazette and Bird Notes. He was a creationist and in 1957 he wrote The Transformist Illusion in which he attempted to show the failure of evolution using examples such as the probability of proteins arising out of random mixing and blood group incompatibilities, many of the objections that were pointed out as incorrect by reviewers. His works Birds of the Indian Hills (191...
Chapters (26)
- BIRDS OF THE INDIAN HILLS
- CONTENTS
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- PART I
- INTRODUCTION
- THE HABITAT OF HIMALAYAN BIRDS
- THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS
- THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE EASTERN HIMALAYAS
- TITS AT WORK
- THE PEKIN-ROBIN
- BLACK BULBULS
- A WARBLER OF DISTINCTION
- THE SPOTTED FORKTAIL
- THE NEST OF THE GREY-WINGED OUZEL
- THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW GROSBEAK
- THE GREAT HIMALAYAN BARBET
- PART II
- THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE NILGIRIS
- PART III
- THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE PALNI HILLS
- APPENDICES
- I. VERNACULAR NAMES OF HIMALAYAN BIRDS
- II. VERNACULAR NAMES OF NILGIRI BIRDS
- INDEX
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