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be verified at your leisure, when you get an opportunity of viewing 
a specimen close at hand. When endeavoring to make out a certain 
species, its more typical marks are to be observed ; the seasons of 
migration noted, and the different elevations to look for certain 
members of such and such a genus. The list at the end of each 
part will give greater facilities, in correctly placing the birds met 
with. I have carefully followed in this list, in every instance, the 
nomenclature adopted by the late Dr. Jerdon, which catalogue I 
have adhered to for many years. A good deal of chopping and 
changing has been going on since then, details of which we need not 
enter into, nor need I refer you to the Zoological Record. Our main 
object is to get acquainted with the bird life in the district. How 
the introduction is brought about is after all a secondary considera- 
tion. I have invariably, with a few minor alterations, adhered to 
the colours of the “types” of the different species, variations to a 
lesser degree occur, when considering the general run of birds in 
their wild state. I have endeavored in most instances when discrib- 
ing a bird, to have the specimens before me. 
On looking over the list you will find against each species “D” 
or “P” and so on. These symbols stand for where the birds are 
likely to be found. “D”—found at one time or another in Darjeeling 
and the district from, say, 14,000 ft. elevation to the foot of the hills. 
Generally speaking the home of each bird is to be considered, the 
locality to which it retires, to build its nest, and brings up its fully 
fledged youngsters. “P,” stands for birds, found in the plains of 
India, not necessarily its home, and for places other than Darjeeling. 
“C. P,” to be more definite, up-country, and the Central Provinces. 
“W. H” for Western and Central parts of the Himalayas. The parti- 
cular significance of “snows,” stands for all high altitude birds, which 
build their nests in the Palzartic circle, 12,000 ft. and over, up to 
say Lake Shumpu, at the foot of the Glacier which comes off 
Kinchinginga. Jerdon’s serial numbers will aid the student in ascer- 
taining whereabouts in the great uniformity of nature the species is 
a link, and other useful significance. Next to a few of the “Water- 
birds” ete. will be “Thibet,” or “passing over” is meant to draw 
your attention to those species of Ducks, Teals, Snipe, Plovers, 
Pochards, the Merganser, and some of the Gulls, which pass over 
Darjeeling, and the district, over the snowy range, and settle 
down on the lakes of central Thibet to breed; then return again, 
when the cold and snow storms, drive them down to warmer 
latitudes, on the plains of India. 
Male birds have been, in most instances, figured to the seeming 
neglect of the females. It is generally advisable to discover the 
cock-bird, owing to the well marked specimens presented to the eye, 
and the display of more of the typical habits, than are found in the 
