PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



The kind reception accorded to the first 

 edition of the present little work has been 

 deemed a justification for its reproduction 

 in an improved form. A few necessary alter- 

 ations have been made to bring it up to date, 

 and the chapters have been re-arranged so 

 as to bring the birds dealt with into the same 

 order as that in which they occur in the 

 Fauna of British India, Bird volumes. The 

 scientific names used for Indian birds are 

 those of the above work, the few foreign 

 species mentioned bearing the name given 

 them in the British Museum Catalogue of 

 Birds. 



The usefuhiess of the book will, it is hoped, 

 be enhanced by the illustrations, which have 

 been drawn by that well-known ornithological 

 artist, Mr. Herbert Goodchild, in most cases 



