[INDOLOGY] Flora and Fauna of India (Biodiversity of India)

[Christian Ferstl]

Dear colleagues,

let me add the following books edited by the Bombay Natural History 
Society:

- K.C. Sahni, The Book of Indian Trees, Oxford etc. 1998, and
- S.H. Prater, The Book of Indian Animals, Oxford etc. 1948, corr. ed. 
1980, 12th repr. 2005

Christian Ferstl
University of Vienna

Am 06.05.2021 18:52, schrieb Mārcis Gasūns via INDOLOGY:
> Greetings,
> 
>  There is an excellent book in English on Ornitology and an
> impressive, but not so huge list of Flora in India in German. About
> Fauna in India there is only a book I'm aware about dogs. Advice
> wanted.
>   You better do not trust most of the dictionaries, because they say,
> that पुष्कर «blue lotus», क्रौञ्च «the
> curlew or snipe» и एणी «female antelope» - and that is not
> really so. For that reason I would love to hear some stories around
> some mistakes in the dictionaries regarding the taxonomy and some
> stories how to get around them with trustable sources:
> 
> 1) Flora
> Renate Syed: Die Flora Altindiens in Literatur und Kunst,
> Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1990
> https://yadi.sk/i/I1VrWAOO2vPXdg
> 
> 2.1) Ornitology
> Birds-in-Sanskrit-Literature.pdf
> https://yadi.sk/i/n0_UxdyO3PDTKk
> 
> 2.2) Fauna
> Bollée_Gone to the dogs
> https://yadi.sk/i/rSWR_NnclCTXFQ
> 
> I've have found https://www.biodiversityofindia.org/, but it does not
> contain far too many of the 1750 Latin plant names I was able to
> extract from Monier-Williams
> (https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/simple/). What other good
> reference works online or scanned books would you recommend, please.
> Some major (not only Indian related DB would be of interest as well).
> 
> Regards,
> Dr. Mārcis Gasūns
> 
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