PREFACE. 



The author trusts that the many imperfections, some 

 of them, perhaps, unavoidable, of the present publication, 

 will be rectified hereafter ; and he begs that these will 

 be freely pointed out to him, by the many observers now 

 in India, with a view to their rectification in a Supplement, 

 or, it may be, in a future edition. He trusts, if his 

 present leisure for scientific pursuits be continued, to be 

 able to add greatly to our knowledge of the geographic 

 distribution of the birds, and of the natural history, gener- 

 ally, of these provinces. On sufficient materials being 

 available, he will, at once, issue a Supplement. 



The 2nd volume is in the Press, and will be published 

 as soon as possible. 



