PREFACE. 



IN the present small volume, I have 

 attempted to give a brief but, I hope, 

 sufficient account of some of the Indian 

 Game Birds, and I propose to complete 

 the account of the remaining Birds with- 

 out undue delay. 



Of the books which have been written 

 on the subject of the Game Birds of India, 

 the large illustrated work of Messrs. Hume 

 and Marshall is at once the most compre- 

 hensive and the most important. It is, 

 however, nearly twenty years since this 

 work was published, and in the interval 

 many species of Game Birds have been 

 added to the Indian list. 



The Catalogue of the Game Birds in 

 the British Museum (vol. xxii.), written 



