Subject: Books on Birds of South Asia


Comprehensive list of Bird books of the Indian Subcontinent


*Abdulali, Humayun & Jamshed D. Panday. (1978) Checklist of The Birds of
Delhi, Agra and Bharatpur. Bombay.
*Ali Salim & Dillon Ripley; (1964-74) Handbook of the Birds of India &
Pakistan  10 vols. OUP Bombay
Ali Salim (1953) The Birds of Travancore and Cochin. Bombay: Oxford
University Press. 
*Ali, Salim & Laeeq Futehally. (1967) Common Birds. New Delhi: National Book
Trust, India.
*Ali, Salim. (1945) The Birds of Kutch. London: Oxford University Press.
*Ali, Salim. (1977) Field Guide to The Birds of The Eastern Hima-layas.
Bombay: Oxford University Press.
*Ali, Salim. (1983) A Pictorial Guide to The Birds of The Indian
Subcontinent. Bombay: Oxford University Press.
Ali Salim (1979) Bird study in India: its history and its impor-tance. New
Delhi:ICCR.
Ali, Salim. (1960) A Picture Book of Sikkim Birds Government of Sikkim,
Gangtok. 
Ali, Salim and Abdulali, H. (1941) The Birds of Bombay and Sal-sette.
Bombay: Prince of Wales Museum.
*Ali, Salim. (1941) The Book of Indian Birds. Bombay: The Bombay Natural
History Society.
*Ali, Salim. (1949) Indian Hill Birds. Bombay: Geoffrey Cumber-lege, Oxford
University Press.
*Ali, Salim. (1956) The Birds of Gujarat. Bombay: Gujarat Re-search Society.
*Ali, Salim. (1962) The Birds of Sikkim. Oxford University Press.
*Ali, Salim. (1969) Birds of Kerala. Oxford University Press.
*Ambedkar, V.C. (1964) Some Indian Weaver Birds. Univ. of Bombay.
Ara, J. (1970) Watching birds. National Book Trust. 
*Baker, E.C.S. (1922-31) Fauna of British India. BIRDS Vols.I-VIII. London:
Taylor and Francis.
*Baker, E.C. Stuart. (1921-30) Game-Birds of India, Burma & Cey-lon. Vols.
I-III. London: John Bale.
*Baker, E.C. Stuart. (1908) The Indian Ducks and Their Allies. The Bombay
Natural History Society.
*Baker, E.C. Stuart. (1913) Indian Pigeons and Doves. London: Witherby & Co.
Baker, E.C.S. (1932-34-35) The Nidification of Birds of the Indian Empire,
Vols1-4 London: Taylor and Francis.
*Baker, H.R. (1930) The Birds of Southern India : Madras, Mala-bar,
Travancore, Cochin, Coorg and Mysore. Madras.
Barnes, H.E. (1885) Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presiden-cy.
Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press.
Bates, R.S.P. (1931) Bird life in India. Madras: Madras Diocesan Press.
*Bates, R.S.P. and Lowther, E.H.N. (1952) Breeding Birds of Kash-mir.
Bombay: Oxford University Press.
Blyth E. (1849-52) Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of Asiat-ic Society.
Calcutta J. Thomas Baptist mission Press. 
Butler, E.A. (1880) A Catalogue of the Birds of the southern portion of the
Bombay Presidency. Bombay.
*Chakravarthy, A.K. & K.P. Purna Chandra Tejasvi. (1992) Birds of Hill
Region of Karnataka. Bangalore: Navbharath Enterprises.
*Cocker, Mark & Carol Inskipp. (1988) Hodgson A Himalayan Or-nithologist.
London: Oxford University Press.
*Cunningham, Lt.-Colonel D.D. (1903) Some Indian Friends and Acquaintances.
London: John Murray. 
*Daniels Ranjit(1992). Birds of Urban South India, Indian Insti-tute of
Science. Bangalore
* Daniels Ranjit (1996) Fieldguide to the birds of Southwest India (OUP)
*Dave, K.N. (1985) Birds in Sanskrit Literature. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
*Dewar, Douglas. (1911) The Indian Crow His Book. Madras: Higgin-botham &
Co. London: Luzac & Co.
*Dewar, Douglas. (1925) Indian Bird Life. London: John Lane The Bodley Head
Limited.
*Dewar, D. (1916) A Bird calender for northern India. London: Thacker.
Dewar, D. (1923) Himalayan and Kashimiri Birds. London: J. Lane
Dewar, D. (1928) Game Birds. London: Chapman & Hall.
*Dewar, D. (1929) Indian Birds' nests. Bombay: Thacker Spink.
Dewar, D. (undated) Animals of no importance. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.
*Dewar, Dougals. Bombay Ducks. London: John Lane The Bodley Head.
*Dewar, Douglas. (1923) Indian Birds. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited.
*Dewar, Douglas. Birds of the Indian Hills. London: The Bodley Head.
*Dewar, Douglas. (1923-25) The Common Birds of India. Vol. I-II Calcutta and
Simla: Thacker, Spink.
Dewar,D. (1913) Glimpses of Indian Birds.
*Dharmakumarsinhji, R.S. (1972) Sixty Indian Birds. Ministry of Information
and Broadcasting Government of India.
*Dharmakumarsinhji, R.S. Birds of Saurashtra India. Published by: R.S.
Dharmakumarsinhji.
*EHA Intro. by Ali, Salim. (1947) The Common Birds of India. Bombay: Thacker
& Co., Ltd.
*EHA (1923) A Naturalist on the Prowl : Or in the Jungle. London: W. Thacker
& Co.
*EHA. The Common Birds of Bombay Bombay: Thacker, Spink & Co.
EW, Oates. (1883) Handbook of the Birds of British Burma 2 vols. 
*Finn, Frank. (1920) How to Know The Indian Waders. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink
& Co.
*Finn, Frank. (1921) The Water Fowl of India & Asia. Calcutta & Simla:
Thacker, Spink & Co.
Finn, F. (1920) Indian Sporting Birds. London: F. Edwards.
*Finn F. Game Birds of India & Asia Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co..
Finn F. Garden & Aviary Birds of India Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co.
Finn, Frank. (1917) The Birds of Calcutta. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.
Fleming RL Sr & Jr; (1970) Birds of Kathmandu and surrounding hills Jore
Ganesh Press. Kathmandu
Fleming RL. (1979) Birds of the Sagarmatha National Park. Avalok. Kathmandu
*Fleming, Robert L. Sr. (1984) Birds of Nepal : With reference to Kashmir
and Sikkim. Nepal: Nature Himalayas.
*Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge. (1924) Birds of An Indian Garden. Cal-cutta &
Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co.
*Futehally, Laeeq. (1959) About Indian Birds. India: Blackie & Son (India) Ltd.
* Gole Prakash.(1996) Enviornment & Orinthology in India. Rawat
Publications, Jaipur
G Henderson & AO Hume; (1873) Lahore to Yarkhand.
*Ganguli, Usha. (1975) A Guide to the Birds of the Delhi Area. New Delhi:
Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
*Gaur, R.K. (1994) Indian Birds. New Delhi: Brijbasi Printers Pvt. Ltd.
*George, Joseph (Editor) (1994) Annotated Checklist of The Birds of
Bangalore. Bangalore: Birdwatchers' Field Club.
Gould, J. (1832) A Century of Birds from the Himalayan Mountains. London.
*Grewal, Bikram. (1995) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Hong Kong: The
Guidebook Company Limited.
*Grewal, Bikram. (1995) Birds of the India & Nepal. London: New Holland.
Haroun er Rashid. (1967)Systematic list of the birds of East Pakistan
Asiatic Society of Pakistan. Dacca
*Harvey, W.G. (1990) Birds in Bangladesh. Dhaka: University Press Limited.
*Henry, G.M. (1927) Birds of Ceylon. London: The Ceylon Govern-ment.
Hodgson BH (1846) Catalogue of the specimens and drawings of mammalia and
birds of Nepal & Tibet. British Museum London
Holmer MRN (1926) Bird study in India. London OUP
Holmer MRN (1923) Indian Bird life London OUP.
*Horsfield T & F Moore (1854-58) Catalogue of the birds in the Museum of the
Hon. East India Company. Two Volumes. London: WH Allen.
*Hume, AO. (1869) Indian Oology and Ornithology. Calcutta: C.B. Lewis,
Baptist Mission Press.
Hume, AO. Contributions to Indian Ornithology. With 32 hand coloured plates
by Keulemans.
Hume AO. Indian Ornithological Collector's Vade-Mecum Central Press Calcutta.
*Hume, AO & Marshall. .(1879-81) The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and
Ceylon. Vol. I-III. London: John Bale.
*Hume, AO. (1889) Hume's Nests & Eggs of Indian Birds. Vol. I-III. London:
R. H. Porter.
*Hutson, Major-General H.P.W. (1954) The Birds About Delhi. The Delhi Bird
Watching Society.
*Inskipp, Carol. (1988) A Birdwatchers' Guide To Nepal. England.
*Inskipp, Carol. (1989) A Popular Guide to The Birds and Mammals of The
Annapurna Conservation Area. Nepal: Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP).
*Inskipp, Tim & Carol. (1991) A Guide to The Birds of Nepal. London:
Christopher Helm.
*Inskipp Carol & Tim. An Introduction to Birdwatching in Bhutan. WWF. Thimpu
Bhutan
*Jerdon, T.C. (1845-1847) Illustrations of Indian ornithology, containing
fifty figures of new, unfigured or interesting species of birds, chiefly
from the south of India. Madras.
*Jerdon, T.C. (1862-64) The Birds of India: A Natural History. Vol. I-III.
Calcutta: The Military Orphan Press.
*Kaul, Samsar Chand. (1939) Birds of Kashmir. Srinagar: The Normal Press.
*Kershaw, Cicely. (1925) Familiar Birds of Ceylon. Colombo: H.W. Cave & Co.
Kershaw, Cicely. (1949) Bird Life in Ceylon.
Khacher L. Birds of the Indian Wetland. Department of Enviorn-ment. New Delhi
Legge; W.V.A. (1867) History of the Birds of Ceylon.
Lester CD. The Birds of Kutch
*Law, Satya Churn. (1923) Pet Birds of Bengal. Calcutta & Simla: Thacker,
Spink & Co.
*Lowther, E.H.N. (1949) A Bird Photographer in India. London: Oxford
University Press.
*Lister M.D. A contribution to the ornithology of the Darjeeling Area. BNHS
Bombay 1954
*MacDonald, Malcolm. (1960) Birds in My Indian Garden. London: Jonathan Cape.
*MacDonald, Malcolm. (1962) Birds in The Sun : Some Beautiful Birds of
India. London: D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Pvt. Ltd.
*Mackintosh, L.J. (1915) Birds of Darjeeling and India : Part I. Calcutta:
J.N. Banerjee & Son, Banerjee Press.
*Marshall GF (1877) Birds Nesting in India. 1st Ed.
Mathews WH & Edwards VS. (1944) A list of birds of Darjeeling. Published by
the authors.
*Messurier, Colonel A. Le. (1904) Game, Shore, and Water : Birds of India.
London: W. Thacker and Co.
*Mierow, Dorothy. (1988). Birds of The Central Himalayas. Bang-kok:
Craftsman Press.
*Murray, James A. (1988) Indian Birds or The Avifauna of British India. Vol.
I-II. London: Trubner & Co.
Murray, J.A. (1889) The Edible and Game Birds of British India with its
dependencies and Ceylon. London: Trubner.
*Neelakantan, K.K., C. Sashikumar & R. Venugopalan. (1993) A Book of Kerala
Birds. Trivandrum: World Wide Fund.
*Oates & Blandford. (1889-98) Fauna of British India Birds 4 vols.
*Oates, Eugene W. (1898) A Manual of the Game Birds of India : Part I-Land
Birds. Bombay: Messrs. A.J. Combridge.
*Oates, Eugene W. (1899) A Manual of the Game Birds of India : Part II-Water
Birds. Bombay: A.J. Combridge Bombay.Ist Ed.
Osmaston, B.B. (1935)Birds of Dehra Dun and adjacent hills. Dehra Dun: 
Palin, H. (1904) The Birds of Cutch. Bombay: Times Press.
*Phillips, W.W.A. (1949) Birds of Ceylon :  Vol. 1-IV. Colombo: Ceylon Daily
News Press Lake House.
*Pinn, Fred.(1985) L. Mandelli- Darjeeling Ornithologist. London
*Pittie, Aasheesh & Andrew Roberston. Nomenclature of Birds of The Indian
Sub-Continent. Bangalore: Ornithological Society of India.
Ranasinghe D. (1977) A Guide to Bird watching in Sri Lanka. Colombo.
*Rangaswami, S. & S. Sridhar. (1993) Bird of Rishi Valley. Andhra Pradesh.
RB Sharpe; (1891) Scientific results of the Second Yarkhand mission. 
Rev. Henry Fairbank (1921) Birds of Mahableshwar. Published by the author.
Poona.
*Ripley, Sidney Dillon. (1978) A Bundle of Feathers. London: Oxford
University Press.
*Ripley, Sidney Dillon. (1982) A Synopsis of The Birds of India and
Pakistan. Bombay: Natural History Society.
*Ripley, Dillon. (1952) Search for the Spiny Babbler. Houghton Mifflin
Company Boston.
*Roberts, T.J. (1991-92) The Birds of Pakistan. Vol. I_II. Kar-achi: Oxford
University Press.
*Smythies, Bertram E. (1953) The Birds of Burma. London: Oliver and Boyd.
*Snilloc. (1945) Mystery Birds of India. Bombay: Thacker & Compa-ny Limited.
*Satyamurti, S.T. (1970) Catalogue of the Bird Gallery Museum.Madras.
*Tikader, B.K. (1984) Birds of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Calcut-ta:
Zoological Survey of India.
*Torfrida. (1944) Nurseries of Heaven: More Birds. Nilgiris: Mrs. May Dart,
Wellington.
*Torfrida. (1944) Nurseries of Heaven: Birds. Nilgiris: Mrs. May Dart, Kotagiri.
Vaurie, Charles. (1972) Tibet and Its Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd.
*Wait, W. E. (1925) Birds of Ceylon. London: Dualu & Co.
*Wan Tho, Loke. (1958) A Company of Birds. London: Michael Jo-seph.
*Ward, Geoff. (1994) Islamabad Birds. Islamabad: Asian Study Group.
*Wedderburn, Sir William. (1912) Allan Octavian Hume, London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Whistler H, Kinnear N, Ali The Vernay Scientific survey of the eastern Ghat;
Ornithological section- Together with The Hyderabad State Ornithological
survey 1930-38
*Whistler, Hugh. (1928) Popular Handbook of Indian Birds. London: Gurney and
Jackson.
*Woodcock, Martin. (1980) Collins Handguide to the Birds of the Indian
Sub-Continent. London: Collins Grafton Street.
*Wright, R. C. and Dewar, Douglas. (1925) The Ducks of Indian. London: H.F.
& G. Witherby.


* Denotes books in the collection of Bikram Grewal