With the exception of British Birds in the Plains 

 of India, which appeared in The Civil and Military 

 Gazette, and The htdian Corby, Birds in the Rain, and 

 Do Anijuals Think? which came out in The Times of 

 India, the articles which compose this book made their 

 debUt in one or other of the following papers : The 

 Madras Mail, The hidian Field, The Englishman. 



The author takes this opportunity of thanking the 

 editors of the above-named newspapers for permission 

 to reproduce these essays. 



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