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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches
Douglas Dewar
275 pages~5 hr 29 min read63 chapters$4.99
Respectable cuckoos, the brown rock-chat, wagtails, bee-eaters roosting at dusk: Douglas Dewar sketches the everyday birds of India with wit and a sharp eye. He watches the scavenger-in-waiting, the teesa hawk, and the art of falconry, turning field notes into lively company. Indian natural history with a smile. Meet the neighbors in the branches.
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Inside this book
63 chapters
- 1JUNGLE FOLK
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4I OF INDIAN BIRDS IN GENERAL
- 5II RESPECTABLE CUCKOOS
- 6III THE BROWN ROCK-CHAT
- 7IV THE SCAVENGER-IN-WAITING
- 8V INDIAN WAGTAILS
- 9VI THE TEESA
- 10VII FALCONRY IN INDIA
- 11VIII HAWKS IN MINIATURE
- 12IX THE ROOSTING OF THE BEE-EATERS
- 13X OWLS
- 14XI A BUNDLE OF INIQUITY
- 15XII THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ACTIONS OF ANIMALS
- 16XIII AT THE SIGN OF THE FARASH
- 17XIV THE COOT
- 18XV THE BEAUTIFUL PORPHYRIO
+ 45 more. The full contents open with the book.
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