Subject: Information required under the Right to Information Act 2005

Details of bird specimens held at ZSI

Particulars of information required: As per list mentioned below

1) As per the website of ZSI, bird specimens are maintained by ZSI (including collections acquired by Asiatic Society of Bengal and Indian Museum). Please provide list of species of bird specimens maintained at ZSI as on 2010 (if 2010 not available, the most recent year the list is available for)

2) What were the locations from India these were collected from?

3) What were the dates these specimens were collected?

4) Who collected these specimens?