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Vol I Jerdon B. of India

III-IV moults — [the Roman numerals are page numbers at the front of Jerdon 1862]

XIII correct old reference   

XXV Females more beautiful [refers to XIII, XXV and XXIX]

XXIX

XXI Cuckoos D[ille]

XXIV — ornament inherited the parent & others the ♀.

XXV — Hen Turnix most quarrelsome

XXVII — Birds crossing in state of nature

XXIX — Adult male can alone be distinguished in representative species.— so they change first

108. curious variations

Wallace must be right about bright colour leading to concealed nests

159 - swallow-tail — wire like sexual difference

178 - Nest vary

201 203 } ♀ Trogon N N   (N not abstracted)

222 Young

228 Z

231 Z

243

244 only in some species this difference [refers to 244, 245, and 246]

245

246 Horn Bill sexual difference

to 280

256 Parrots 

267

289

315

320 Eggs of Cuckoo —

343.

349

359 N  Nectarininae nuptial dress permanent in some & seasonal in others & 366

365 Nectarininae ✓

[illeg]

369 ✓

389 — nesting plumage of ♂ different

397 moult

434 5 — Disc-tail — seasonal [Bhringa remifer]

435

436 Var. variation of species

445

N 466 same previous spec had young ♀ with same nidifiction

515 — Thrush sexual characters early exhibited

Reference:

Jerdon, Thomas Claverhill. 1862-1864. The birds of India; being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India, with descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes, and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not found in India, making it a manual of ornithology specially adapted for India. 2 vols. in 3. Calcutta: the author. [A copy ordered, CCD16] vol. 1 PDF