BOMBAY DUCKS 



AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE EVERY- 

 DAY BIRDS AND' BEASTS FOUND IN A 

 NATURALIST'S ELDORADO. BY DOUGLAS 

 DEWAR, F.Z.S., I.C.S. 



With Numerous Illustrations from Photographs of 

 Living Birds by Captain F. D. S. FAYRER, I. M.S. 



PRESS OPINIONS 



Spectator. — " Mr. Douglas Dewar's book is excellent. . . . A feature 

 of the book is the photographs of birds by Captain Fayrer. They are 

 most remarkable, and quite unlike the usual wretched snapshot and 

 blurred reproductions with which too many naturalists' books are 

 nowadays illustrated." 



Standard. — " The East has ever been a place of wonderment, but 

 the writer of ' Bombay Ducks ' brings before Western eyes a new set of 

 pictures. . . . The book is entertaining, even to the reader who is 

 not a naturalist first and a reader afterwards. . . . The illustrations 

 cannot be too highly praised." 



Daily News. — "This new and sumptuous book. . . . Mr. Dewar 

 gives us a charming introduction to a great many interesting birds." 



Pall Mall Gazette. — "Most entertaining dissertations on the tricks 

 and manners of many birds and beasts in India." 



Graphic. — "The book is written in a most readable style, light and 

 easy, yet full of information, and not over-burdened with scientific 

 words and phrases. . . . The habits of the different birds are fully 

 described, often in a very amusing and interesting manner." 



Outlook. — " Pleasant reading, with pretty touches of the author's 

 own fancy ; a good deal of information agreeably conveyed. . . . The 

 illustrations are of an extremely high order, constituting not only a 

 beautiful, but a really valuable series of portraits." 



County Gentleman. — "Thoroughly entertaining to all who can appre- 

 ciate either animal life as seen through practised eyes, or witty and 

 humorous writing in any form. . . . The book is handsomely pro- 

 duced, and is altogether an attractive acquisition." 



Illustrated London News. — "Mr. Dewar . . . has collected a series 

 of essays on bird life which for sprightliness and charm are equal to 

 anything written since that classic, 'The Tribes on my Frontier,' was 

 published." 



Indian Daily News. — "Mr. Dewar's excellent book. . . . We 

 sincerely hope that our readers will derive the same lively pleasure from 

 the reading of the book as we have done." 



Yorkshire Daily Observer. — "This handsome and charming book 

 . . . the author has many interesting observations to record, and he does 

 so in a very racy manner." 



Dublin Express. — "Mr. Dewar's account of the 'Naturalist's El 

 Dorado ' is particularly captivating, and is rendered not the less so by 

 the splendidly produced photographs of living birds." 



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