Bitan Kumar Datta
Information on the Endemic Birds of India are scattered. Ripley (1961) in his 'SYNOPSIS' devoted a chapter on the Endemic bird Taxa of the Indian Subcontinent. He (1961) mentioned 176 species (under 104 genera, 39 families and 16 orders) and 11 genera as Endemic Taxa for the entire Indian Subcontinent. Of the Ripley's list 155 species occur in the Indian Territory, out of which only 44 specie and one genus are exclusively found in India. Of the rest ...