HOfF TO USE THIS BOOK 



This key has been compiled on the principle 

 followed in Indian Birds. Even as the latter 

 has been the means of teaching scores of people 

 the names of the birds commonly seen in the 

 plains of India, so will this, I venture to hope, 

 enable anyone who wishes to do so, to learn in 

 a very short time the names of all the birds 

 seen commonly in summer in Kashmir and 

 at the various Himalayan hill stations. 



The student should make a note regarding 

 any strange bird seen, giving the colours in 

 its plumage and any anatomical peculiarity, 

 such as a crest, a long tail or bill. On returning 

 to the house. Part I of the book should be 

 consulted. The bird in question should find 

 place in two or more of the classes of birds 

 in that Part, and so may be set down as being 

 probably one of two or three species. A 

 reference to the descriptions in Part II should 

 complete the identification. 



To take an easy example. The observer sees 



