INTRODUCTION vii. 



wing and foot be dried and if possible treated with some skin- 

 preservative — in fact, for very big birds the head alone will be 

 enough, and in the case of snipe the tail affords the best character 

 for discrimination. 



The scientific names used are those of the " Fauna of British 

 India" bird volumes, now the standard work on general Indian 

 ornithology, and where a species does not occur in these the 

 naming of the " British Museum Catalogue of Birds " has been 

 followed. Where the scientific name on the plate differs from 

 these the fact has been indicated.^ 



Frank Finn. 



' Errata. — This has been overlooked in the case of the Bar-tailed Godwit 

 {Limosa riifa on the plate) ; and the plate of the White-crested Kalij, 

 referred 'to in the foot-note on p. 183, is not one of those in this book. On 

 p. 205, also,"C'enon/t5 should read Tnujopan. 



