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Subcontinent. By Salim Ali & S. Dillon Ripley. Pp. 117+106 plates (73 in colour, 33 monochrome), (18.5 cm × 24.7 cm) with plates by John Henry Dick. New Delhi, 1983. Bombay Natural History Society &
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1969): Review: Birds of Kerala (second edition of The Birds of
Travancore and Cochin). By Salim Ali. pp. xxiii+444 (16.5 × 24 cm.) + 22 plates (16 in colour by D.V. Cowen) + many pen-and-ink sketches+end-paper maps. Bombay, 1969. Oxford University Press.
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1972): Review: Handbook of the Birds of India and
Pakistan. Vol. 6. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. pp. xvi+245 (24×16 cm) with 8 coloured plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations. Bombay, 1971. Oxford University Press.
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Pakistan, Vol. 1. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. pp. lviii+380 (16.7 × 24.7 cm.). 18 coloured plates. Bombay, 1968. Oxford University Press. Price Rs. 90.
224:. He won Chapman Grants from the American Ornithologists' Union in 1965, 1966 and 1970, for research at the British Museum. Later, he was joint director of the ZSI, until he retired in 1981, and then emeritus scientist until 1986.
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University of Calcutta in 1943 and received an MSc in 1945. He received a Ph.D. in 1952 from the
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1978): Review: Field Guide to the Birds of the
Eastern Himalayas. By Salim Ali. pp. xvi+263 (11.8×18 cm). With 37 coloured plates. Delhi, 1977. Oxford University Press.
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1950): On the Shrike Lanius tephronotus (Vigors), with remarks on the erythronotus and tricolor groups of Lanius schach Linne, and their hybrids.
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Biswas, B. (1951): On some Larger Spine-tailed Swifts, with the description of a new subspecies (Chaetura cochinensis rupchandi) from Nepal.
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Biswas, B. (1961): Proposal to designate a neotype for Corvus benghalensis
Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves), under the plenary powers Z.N. (S) 1465.
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Biswas, B. (1973): Report of the Indian national section. Bulletin of the
International Council for Bird Preservation 11: 238–239.
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1985): Review: Comments on Ripley's "A Synopsis of the Birds of India and
Pakistan" - Second Edition (1982).
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1974): Zoological results of the Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition 1954: Notes on some birds of Eastern Nepal.
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Biswas, B. (1955): Zoological results of the Daily Mail Himalayas Expedition 1954. Two new birds from Khumba, Eastern Nepal.
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Biswas, B. (1983): Additional notes on birds recorded on 1954 'Daily Mail' Himalayan Expedition. Unpublished.
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Biswas, B. (1959): A note on the correct zoological name of the Indian Little Green Heron (Aves, Ardeidae).
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Biswas, B. (1951): Notes on the taxonomic status of the Indian Plaintive Cuckoo Cuculus passerinus Vahl.
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1956): A Large Indian Kite Milvus migrans lineatus (Gray) with a split bill.
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Biswas, B. (1953): Fauna of the Balangir District (formerly Patna State), Orissa. II. Birds.
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Biswas, Biswamoy (1959): On the validity of Harpactes erythrocephalus hodgsoni (Gould) .
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