Urfi, Abdul Jamil

MS-020-3-1-2-48

Letter and email correspondence between Pittie and Urfi seeking database references, reprints and major/relevant/regional birding literature, offering newspaper article for comment (enclosure: India takes the birds under its wing). Topics include Heronries, migratory waders and waterfowl, raptor predation, planned paper by Urfi on identification of Storks, Ibises and Hornbills, nature discovery centre Sundarvan, popularisation of ornithology by the Birdwatchers' Society of Andhra Pradesh. Also includes reference to Manakadan and Robertson's contribution to bird taxonomy, nomenclature and description ventures.

6 July 1993, 27 February 1995, 3 March 1995, 27 April 1995, 29 February 1996, ? March 1996, 1 April 1999, 28 April 1999

Aasheesh Pittie Papers

Series 3: Correspondence with other birders

Sub-Series 1: Bombay Natural History Society Correspondence