PIIEFACE. 



Tlie object of this little book is to meet the needs 

 both of the beginner in Ornithology and of the sportsman 

 with vvliom natnre-study is not the first consideration, yet 

 whowonld gladly identify what he shoots if he is furnished 

 with easy means of doing so. 



The Individual Notes in Chapters V to XIII are 

 largely " scissors and paste" It has seemed best to give 

 exact quotations from the standard authorities. Where 

 those authorities have themselves drawn on others, it is 

 unnecessary, for reasons of s[)ace, to state that "Hume 

 quotes Seebohm "' etc, etc.. and the name of the original 

 writer alone lias been given. The following main works 

 to which the author is indebted are briefly described in 

 the body of the book by the names italicised. His grate- 

 ful thanks are to all the authors and publishers noted, 

 with whose kind permission his quotations have been 

 made. 



Autbor (sliort ) 

 description). 



Hume and ^Marshall 

 {Hume.) 



Gates and Blanford 

 [tauna.) 



Oates 



Stuurt Baker 



Finn 



Pycraft 

 Ilankin 



Book. 



Publisher. 



Game Birds of Bri- 

 tish India, Bufma 

 and Ceylon. 



Fauna of British In- 

 dia, inclu'ticg Cey- 

 lon and Burma, 



Manual of the Game 

 Birds of India. 



The Indian Ducks and 

 their Allies. 



The Water Fowl of 

 India and Asia. 



A'History of Birds... 

 Animal Flight 



Bombay Natural His- 

 tory Society's Jour- 

 nal. 



Messrs. Uixiubotham. 



Me.«srs. Francis and 

 Taylor, under autho- 

 rity ."of the iSecretary 

 of State. 



A. J. Combridge and 

 Co. 



Bombay Natural His- 

 tory Society. 



Thacker Spink and Co. 



Metliuen and Co. 

 Iliffe and. Co. 



Bombay Natural His- 

 tory Society. 



