4 Manual of the Game Birds of India, 



largely availed myself of the Catalogue of 

 the Ducks by Count Salvadori, forming 

 the twenty-seventh volume of the British 

 Museum Catalogue of Birds. I have in 

 a few instances ventured to differ from 

 this eminent authority. I have, for in- 

 stance, placed the Pink-headed Duck 

 near the Pochards, and I have placed 

 the Grey Ducks in a separate genus or 

 group, for reasons which are fully given 

 in their proper place. 



In dealing with the Snipes, I have pro- 

 fited by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's Catalogue 

 of the Waders in the British Museum 

 Collection (vol. xxiv.). 



The birds treated of in this second part 

 of my Manual are of such wide distribu- 

 tion that the literature relating to them 

 is very extensive. So many of the Ducks 

 and Geese visit India only in the winter 

 that we have to go to European authors 

 for an account of their nesting and general 

 habits in summer. The books to which 

 I am chiefly indebted for information, 

 and from which I have frequently quoted 

 largely, are Dr. Sharpe's " British Birds " 

 in Allen's " Naturalist's Library " ; Mr. 

 Dresser's splendid work " The Birds of 

 Europe "j and the late Mr. Seebohm's 

 " British Birds." In addition to these I 



