Birds of Saurashtra

Birds of Saurashtra, India’, by Rao Shri Dharmakumarsinhji, is a large, detailed treatise published by the author in Saurashtra and printed at the Times of India Press, Bombay. The book is undated but was likely published in the mid-20th century, and was, according to Major-General H. Williams’ Foreword, the first authoritative record of the birds of Saurashtra. Fifty-three pages of prefatory matter are followed by 561 pages of text, including “Additional Notes on the Birds of Kutch and Gujarat”.  The text is supplemented by more than a dozen maps and 51 plates of illustrations- many of them in colour. The book is approximately 8.5 inches wide, 11.6 inches tall, and 1.8 inches thick.