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**'''[[Hunting accounts online]]''' for accounts of animals who were hunted, and their habitats.
**[[Botanists and naturalists]]
*[http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/nat_hist/id/46017 ''An Account of Indian Serpents collected on the Coast of Coromandel''] by Patrick Russell MD, FRS 1796. With Plates. Linda Hall Library Kansas City, USA, LHL Digital Collections. Note: after the Zoom in icon, click on the next icon Full Browser, for ease of reading. The images are stated to be in Tiff format, so if you cannot see the images refer [[Online books#Digital Library of india|Online books-Digital Library of india]] for details of Tiff plugins.
:[https://archive.org/details/accountIndianse2Russ ''A Continuation of an Account of Indian Serpents''] by Patrick Russell 1801 Archive.org. With Plates. This volume is Part Ii, and contains Appendices written in 1804 and 1809.
*[https://archive.org/details/reptilesofbritis00gn ''The Reptiles of British India''] by Albert C. L. G Gunther 1864. With [https://archive.org/stream/reptilesofbritis00gn#page/n480/mode/1up Plates] at the back of the book. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/indiansnakeselem00nich ''Indian Snakes: An Elementary Treatise on Ophiology with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Snakes Found in India and the Adjoining Countries''] by Edward Nicholson, Surgeon, Army Medical Department 2nd edition 1874 with Plates Archive.org. (First edition [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aAsAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1870] Google Books)
*[https://archive.org/details/TheThanatophidiaOfIndiaBeingADescriptionOfTheVenomousSnakesOfThe ''The Thanatophidia of India: Being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an Account of the Influence of Their Poison on Life and a Series of Experiments''] by J Fayrer, Surgeon-Major HM Bengal Army 1872 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924031176435 ''The Royal Tiger of Bengal, his Life and Death''] by J Fayrer MD Bengal Medical Service 1875 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tribesonfrontier00aitkiala ''The tribes on my frontier; an Indian naturalist's foreign policy''] by E H Aitken (E H A ) 6th edition 1904 (Written c 1880) Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof00ster ''Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon''] by Robert A Sterndale, with 170 Illustrations by the author. 1884. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/mammaliaofindia033244mbp ''Sterndale’s Mammalia of India: A New and Abridged edition by Frank Finn''] 1929 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924079586685 ''Seonee; or, Camp life on the Satpura Range; a Tale of Indian Adventure''] by Robert Armitage Sterndale, 2nd Edition 1877 (First published 1877?) Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. Central Provinces of India. Set in fictional form (for juveniles), but based on actual experiences.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012409987 ''Forest Life and Sport in India''] by S Eardley-Wilmot, Late Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India 1910. Archive.org. He joined the Forest Service in 1873
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/284797 ''Wild Animals In Central India''] by A A Dunbar Brander 1923. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. The author was a Conservator of Forests in the Central Provinces.
*[https://archive.org/details/CameraTigerland ''With A Camera In Tiger Land''] by F W Champion 1928 (first published 1927) Archive.org. The author was in the Imperial Forest Service of India, a keen naturalist and photographer.
:[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/211938 ''The Jungle In Sunlight And Shadow''] by FW Champion 1934. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/219436 ''Forest Life In India''] by James W Best 1934 Pdf download, Digital Library of India. The author was a forest officer in central India for 19 years
*[https://archive.org/details/onemanandathousa007524mbp ''One Man And A Thousand Tigers''] by Colonel Kesri Singh 1959 Archive.org. The author was Conservator of Forests for the Maharajah of Jaipur.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/553304 ''The Deer And The Tiger: A Study Of Wildlife In India''] by George B Schaller 1967 Pdf download, Digital Library of India
