The Avifauna Of The Island Of Ceylon

About the Book:-A systematic account with descriptions of all the known species of Birds, inhabiting the island, also observations on their habits, Nidification etc. and tables of their Geographical distribution throughout. This book is a systematic account, with descriptions, of all the known species of birds in Ceylon. It offers notices on various habits of the birds, like their habitat, nidification, etc. It also gives a table of their geographical distribution in India. the birds are listed alphabetically, based on the order if the family that the bird belongs to. There are many b/w illustrations, and 2 coloured plates in this book, which is a repriunt of the 1890 edition About the Author:-Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death. He was christened plain ‘James Murray’, but in 1855 he assumed the extra names ‘Augustus Henry’ in order to distinguish himself from other James Murrays in the Hawick area. A precocious child with a voracious appetite for learning, he left school at fourteen because his parents were not able to afford to pay the fees to continue his education. At seventeen he became a teacher at Hawick Grammar School and three years later was headmaster of the Subscription Academy there. In 1856 he was one of the founders of the Hawick Archaeological Society.By this time Murray was primarily interested in languages and etymology, the origin of words. Some idea of the depth and range of his linguistic erudition may be gained from a letter of application he wrote to Thomas Watts, Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, in which he claimed an 'intimate acquaintance' with Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish and Latin, and 'to a lesser degree' Portuguese, Vaudois, Provençal & various dialects'. In addition, he was 'tolerably familiar' with Dutch, German and Danish. His studies of Anglo-Saxon and Mœso-Gothic had been 'much closer', he knew 'a little of the Celtic' and was at the time 'engaged with the Slavonic, having obtained a useful knowledge of the Russian'. The Title 'The Avifauna Of The Island Of Ceylon written/authored/edited by James A. Murray', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121231411 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 434 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 21.59 x 27.94 cms Vol:-