PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
THE favourable reception which the Anglo-Indian 
public has been kind enough to accord to the present 
work in its first form ‘‘ How to know the Indian Ducks *’ 
has been deemed a justification for the issue of this 
revised ed tion, which has not only been brought up 
to date as far as Indian waterfowl are concerned, but 
amplified by the addition of brief notices and descrip- 
tions of all non-Indian Asiatic species. Thus the book 
is now a complete guide to all the wild fowl of Asia 
from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, and will, it 1s 
hoped, be serviceable to sportsmen East and West of 
our Indian Empire, as well as affording means of iden- 
tification to Anglo-Indians of species at present not 
known as Indian, but likely in the future to come over 
our borders, as the Red-breasted Goose and Mandarin 
Duck have done since the publication of this work in 
its original form. 
By way of keeping to the original plan of a work of 
reference for Anglo-Indians especially, however, the 
matter dealing with non-Indian Asiatic species has been 
kept in small print, and these species are not included 
in the keys, to simplify matters as much as possible. 
The majority of the ducks the sportsman is likely to 
meet with, it must be remembered, are found all across 
Asia in greater or less abundanee, so that if he knows 
the Indian species he will be well advanced in his know- 
ledge of those he may meet with in shooting elsewhere 
in Asia ; or in Europe either, for that matter. 
By way of making the work as useful as possible to 
beginners, the drawings of heads which have now been 
