CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



DURING the last year or two I have been repeatedly 

 pressed to 

 write a 

 simple ac- 

 count of 

 the Birds 

 of Bom- 

 bay. It has 

 been re- 

 presented 

 to me that 

 there are 

 many who 

 would like 

 to know 

 the com- 

 mon birds 

 that ap- 

 pear in 

 their gar- 

 dens and 

 abouttheir 

 houses, to 

 learn their 

 names and 



H. R. H. The Kino Crow. 



something of their natures, without "collecting" 

 them, and that there is no book from which such 



