INTRODUCTION. 



TN 1896 the Honorary Secretary of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society induced me to write a series of articles 

 on our Indian Chenomorph?e, and consequently the articles 

 which commenced in Volume xi. of the ' Journal ' of that Society 

 made their appearance. 



Since the publication of Hume and Marshall's ' Game- 

 Birds,' no attempt has been made to collect the various notes- 

 which have from time to time been printed in the ' Asian,' 

 ' The Indian Field,' and other sporting papers, as well as in 

 the B. N. H. S. Journal itself, and it has been a matter 

 of great difficulty — often an impossibility — for either sportsman 

 or ornithologist to know what has already been recorded and 

 what has not. Hence many interesting facts and finds were 

 never recorded at all, and these articles were originally written 

 as much with a view to elicit more information as to place 

 on record in a compact form what had already been recorded. 



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