PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



THE kind reception accorded to the first edition of 

 the present little work has been deemed a justification 

 for its reproduction in an improved form. A few neces- 

 sary alterations have been made to bring it up to date, 

 and the chapters have been re-arranged so as to bring the 

 birds dealt with into the same order as that in which 

 they occur in the Fauna of British India, Bird volumes. 

 The scientific names used for Indian birds are those 

 of the above work, the few foreign species mentioned 

 bearing the name given them in the British Museum, 

 Catalogue of Birds. 



The usefulness of the book will, it is hoped, be en- 

 hanced by the illustrations, which have been drawn by 

 that well-known ornithological artist, Mr. Herbert Good- 

 child, in most cases from living birds in the collection 

 of the London Zoological Society. 



FRANK FINN. 



LONDON, January 1904. 



