BOMBAY DUCKS 



AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE EVERYDAY BIRDS 

 6" BEASTS FOUND IN A NATURALIST'S EL DORADO 



BY DOUGLAS DEWAR, F.Z.S., I.C.S. 



With Numerous Illustrations from Photographs of 

 Living Birds by Captain F. D. S. FAYRER, I. M.S. 



PRESS OPINIONS. 



Spectator." Mr. Douglas Dewar's book is excellent. ... A feature of the 

 book is the photographs of birds by Captain Fayrer. They are most remark- 

 able, and quite unlike the usual wretched snapshot and blurred reproductions 

 with which too many naturalists' books are nowadays illustrated. " 



Standard." The East has ever been a place of wonderment, but the writer 

 of ' Bombay Ducks ' brings before Western eyes a new set of pictures. . . . 

 The book is entertaining, even to the reader who is not a naturalist first and a 

 reader afterwards. . . . The illustrations cannot be too highly praised." 



Daily News. 1 ' This new and sumptuous book. . . . Mr. Dewar gives us a 

 charming introduction to a great many interesting birds." 



Pall Mall Gazette. "Most entertaining dissertations on the tricks and 

 manners of many birds and beasts in India." 



Graphic." The book is written in a most readable style, light and easy, yet 

 full of information, and not overburdened with scientific words and phrases. 

 . . . The habits of the different birds are fully described, often in a very amus- 

 ing and interesting manner." 



Outlook," Pleasant reading, with pretty touches of the author's own fancy ; 

 a good deal of information agreeably conveyed. . . .The illustrations are of 

 an extremely high order, constituting not only a beautiful, but a really valuable 

 series of portraits." 



County Gentleman." Thoroughly entertaining to all who can appreciate 

 either animal life as seen through practised eyes, or witty and humorous writing 

 in any form. . . ... The book is handsomely produced, and is altogether an 



attractive acquisition." 



Illustrated London News. "Mr. Dewar . . . has collected a series of essays 

 on bird life which for sprightliness and charm are equal to anything written 

 since that classic, ' The Tribes on my Frontier,' was published." 



Indian Daily News. " Mr. Dewar's excellent book. . . . We sincerely 

 hope that our readers will derive the same lively pleasure from the reading of 

 this book as we have done." 



Yorkshire Daily Observer. " This handsome and charming book ... the 

 author has many interesting observations to record, and he does so in a very 

 racy manner." 



Dublin Express. " Mr. Dewar's account of the c Naturalist's El Dorado ' is 

 particularly captivating, and is rendered not the less so by the splendidly 

 produced photographs of living birds." 



Manchester Guardian. " ... A series of clever and accurate essays on Indian 

 natural history written by a man who really knows the birds and beasts. ..." 



Shooting Times. 11 ... a more delightful work than ' Bombay Ducks ' has 

 not passed through our hands for many a long day, and the way the themes are 

 written are so much to the point. There is not a dull line in the book, which is 

 beautifully illustrated. ..." 



Truth, " ... A naturalist with a happy gift for writing in a bright and 

 entertaining way, yet without any sacrifice of scientific accuracy. . . ." 



Western Daily Press. 1 ' . . . The descriptions of the habits and character- 

 istics of these ' Bombay Ducks ' is a solid and welcome contribution to science, 

 quite as valuable as the dry-as-dust descriptions of new species. . . ." 



