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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 ...
After the merger of Goa with the Indian Union, the Zoological Survey of Indian sent several parties to explore the faunal wealth of this place. The paper is based on the ornithological material collected during 1968-1978. Included also are records made from Goa by Grubhand Ali (1976) and Rane (1984). Our knowledge on the bird life of the State is limit4d to the records made from the adjoining areas of North Kanara by Davidson (1898) and Karnataka by Ali ...