PREFACE. 



This little work is mainly a reprint of a series 

 of articles contributed by me some years back to 

 the Indian Forester, revised and brought up to 

 date, and with the addition of a chapter on the 

 Sand-grouse. The Bustards I have already dealt 

 with in my work " How to know the Indian 

 Waders," as they are most nearly allied to certain 

 wading birds. 



The present work contains, in addition to ac- 

 counts of the Game-birds of our Indian Empire, 

 brief descriptions of the species belonging to Asia 

 outside Indian limits, and to the East Indian 

 islands which belong to Asia zoologically con- 

 sidered. 



It is hoped that the usefulness of the work will 

 thereby be increased, while any perplexity to 

 students of the Indian and Burmese birds alone 

 may be avoided by observing that the descriptions 

 of all these exotic forms are in small print, while 

 their names in the table of contents are in italics. 



The scientific nomenclature employed is that of 

 the Fauna of British India volumes for Indian and 



