. Indian pigeons and doves . 600KSELLERSSTATIONERSPRINTERSS>? . Calcutta. THE ASHY-HEADED GREEN PlGEON-05A!0/«i7eOA P. fHAYHEl ^^ Nat. Size—Male on right, female on left.) p„„„.^,«p, INDIAN PIGEONS ^ AND DOVES BY E^ C. STUART BAKER (rJ , , of Indian Dttoks and their Allies. WITH TWENTY-SEVEN COLOURED PLATES FROM DRAWINGS BYH. GRONVOLD and G. E. LODGE. WITHERBY & CO. 326 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON1913 Printed br WITHBUBY & their Printing Press inMiddle Row Place, London il-lfO^bO -Cct^^ PREFACE. My reasons for writing a volume upon our Indian Pigeons and Dovea

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. Indian pigeons and doves . 600KSELLERSSTATIONERSPRINTERSS>? . Calcutta. THE ASHY-HEADED GREEN PlGEON-05A!0/«i7eOA P. fHAYHEl ^^ Nat. Size—Male on right, female on left.) p„„„.^,«p, INDIAN PIGEONS ^ AND DOVES BY E^ C. STUART BAKER (rJ , , of Indian Dttoks and their Allies. WITH TWENTY-SEVEN COLOURED PLATES FROM DRAWINGS BYH. GRONVOLD and G. E. LODGE. WITHERBY & CO. 326 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON1913 Printed br WITHBUBY & their Printing Press inMiddle Row Place, London il-lfO^bO -Cct^^ PREFACE. My reasons for writing a volume upon our Indian Pigeons and Doveaare several, and I trust will be deemed sufiBcient by my readers. In the first place, there has as yet been no book published whichdeals with these most beautiful birds from the point of view of theSportsman and Field-Naturalist as well as from that of the Scientificor Museiun-Naturalist, and as this is a gap in the records of ourIndian Avifauna which badly needs filling, I may be forgiven for tryingto bridge it. Skins—as skins—are, without doubt, fu

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