BOMBAY DUCKS 



AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE EVERYDAY BIRDS 

 (&^ BEASTS FOUND IN A NATURALIST'S EL DORADO 



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 remark- 

 able, 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. — " 'Mo?,\. 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 overburdened with scientific words and phrases. 

 . . . The habits of the different birds are fully described, often in a very amus- 

 ing 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 appreciate 

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

 in any form. . . . The book is handsomely produced, and is altogether an 

 attractive acquisition." 



Illustrated Lotidon News.— "'^i.'Dcviar . . . 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 

 this book as we have done." 



Yfrkshirt Daily ObserTier. — "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." 



Manchester Guardian.—" . . . A series of clever and accurate essays on Indian 

 natural history written by a man who really knows the birds and beasts. . . ." 



Shootings Times.—" ... a more delightful work than ' Bombay Ducks ' has 

 not passed through our handsfor many a long day, and the way the themes are 

 written are so much to the point. There is not a dull line in the book, which is 

 beautifully illustrated. . . ." 



Truth. — " ... A naturalist with a happy gift for writing in a bright and 

 entertaining way, yet without any sacrifice of scientific accuracy. . . ." 



Western Daily Press. — " . . . The descriptions of the habits and character- 

 istics of these ' Bombay Ducks ' is a solid and welcome contribution to science, 

 quite as valuable as the dry-as-dust descriptions of new species. . . ." 



