Abstract
BOOKS on the animals, birds especially, that abound in Indian gardens tend to become numerous. This is not surprising, for the wealth of animal life to be found in Indian cities, and especially in suburban gardens, far exceeds anything known in Europe. Not only is the fauna much richer, but, as Colonel Cunningham points out, all animals are tamer and are protected by the human inhabitants of the country, “who,” as he says,“are free from the desire to capture or kill any strange or beautiful living thing that they may meet with, who have no youthful hereditary instinct for bird-nesting, and in mature life no natural appreciation of ‘ murder as a fine art.’”
Some Indian Friends and Acquaintances: a Study of the Ways of Birds and other Animals Frequenting Indian Streets and Gardens.
By Lieut.-Colonel D. D. Cunningham Pp. viii+423. (London: John Murray, 1903.) Price 12s. net.
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B., W. Some Indian Friends and Acquaintances: a Study of the Ways of Birds and other Animals Frequenting Indian Streets and Gardens . Nature 69, 433–434 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069433a0
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