INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 



The fii-st part of the ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ORNITHOLOGY is 

 at lengtli presented to the Public, after a greater delay in the publication than the Author 

 was led to expect. 



The ground-TTork and branches are from the pencil of a highly talented amateur 

 Artist, and the Author here begs leave to tender his most grateful acknowledgments for his 

 very valuable aid, which has contributed not a little to set off the drawings and embellish 

 the work. Several of the plates, however, viz. Nos., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12 were printed 

 off before the Author became acquainted with that gentleman. Thirty additional copies of 

 these plates being afterwards found necessary to meet the increasing list of Subscribers, the 

 same Officer added a ground-work to these. The colourists were instructed to paint in to 

 those first printed similar to that of the additional lithographs ; but, as might have been 

 expected, they have not executed this part so well as the Author could have wished, and they 

 were not allowed to finish all the copies. In consequence of this a difference, more marked 

 in some than others, wiU be found among the plates mentioned above ; and I trust that this 

 explanation may prove sufficient to those who have the opportunity of comparing the two sets. 



The 2d No. being entirely printed and partially coloui-ed, will appear at no very 

 distant interval, and the nature of its contents wiU probably make it more attractive than the 

 present number. 



Should the publication of the present series of fifty bu'ds be, as there is every 

 reason to anticipate, successful enough to repay the Author for the heavy expenses he has 

 incurred, it wiU, immediately on completion, be followed by a second set of fifty more bhds, 

 and the two series will then include a very considerable number of the unfigm-ed species 

 of Peninsular India. 



A classified Index will be given with the concluding No. which will notice any 

 corrections of nomenclature that may be required. 



Nelloke : November 3d, 1843. 



