Research Catalog

Title

Salim Ali's India / edited by Ashok S. Kothari, B.F. Chhapgar ; assisted by Shubhangi R. Puradkar.

Publication

Mumbai : Bombay Natural History Society, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kothari, Ashok S.
• Chhapgar, B. F.
• Ali, Sálim, 1896-1987.
• Bombay Natural History Society.

Description

171 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map; 33 cm.

Summary

Contributed articles on bird study.

Subject

• Birds > India
• Forest animals > India

Note

• "To the memory of Sálim Ali on the occasion of his birth centenary, November 12, 1996"--Prelim. p. 1.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Unforgettable Sálim Ali / J.C. Daniel as told to Mohan Sivanand -- Ornithology in India: its past, present, and future / Sálim Ali -- Mystery birds of India / Sálim Ali -- The joy of the sarus crane meeting the old master / James Forbes -- Swifts and terns at Vengurla Rocks / Humayun Abdulali -- On the road to Gersoppa and back / A.R. Hughes and C. McCann / Trapping elephants in India and Ceylon / J. Emerson Tennent -- Recorded instances of children having been nourished by wolves / Jivanji Jamshedji Modi -- Wild beasts of Gujarat / James Forbes -- A lion hunt in Punjab / Douglas Dewar -- The leopard of Plassey / Thomas Williamson -- The hunting leopard / T.C. Jerdon -- A scrimmage with a tiger / Frank B. Simson -- Kubbur / Henry Shakespear -- The faukeer's tiger on rice and ghee / Thomas Williamson -- The three-fanged tigress of Bogarum / Henry Shakespear -- Padam Singh / Ernest Young -- Sawbash Bauloo / Thomas Williamson -- A battle with a shark on the Coromandel Coast / Hobart Caunter -- Gleanings / From the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society -- Trees and early residents of Bombay / S.M. Edwards -- Wild animals in Bombay / P.R. Awati -- The stone elephant at Elephanta / Basil Hall -- Khandalla: its scenery and wildlife -- A tiger hunt at the cavern temples at Salsette / Hobart Caunter.

Call Number

*OHD+ 99-6551

ISBN

0195641604

LCCN

97900348

OCLC

36649273

Title

Salim Ali's India / edited by Ashok S. Kothari, B.F. Chhapgar ; assisted by Shubhangi R. Puradkar.

Imprint

Mumbai : Bombay Natural History Society, c1996.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Kothari, Ashok S.

Chhapgar, B. F.

Ali, Sálim, 1896-1987.

Bombay Natural History Society.

Research Call Number

*OHD+ 99-6551