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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

As this book was published in 1913, it is now freely available online and you can read sentences such as “The Burman has no head, and succumbs at once to a comparatively small quantity of liquor” without violating any copyright laws. The species is also hunted for local consumption in Meghalaya (India), according to the HBW.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

Atherton (1797-1827), a naturalist (whatever that means exactly) and a member of the British Army in India. He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time).

Squirrels 137