BOMBAY DUCKS 
AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE EVERYDAY 
BIRDS & BEASTS FOUND IN A NATURALIST’S 
EL DORADO 
By DOUGLAS DEWAR, F.Z.S., LC.S. 
With Numerous Illustrations from Photographs of 
Living Birds by Captain F. D. S. Fayrer, I.M.S. 
PRESS OPINIONS 
Sfectator.—" Mr. Douglas Dewar's book is excellent. . . . A feature 
of the book is the photographs of birds by Captain Fayrer. They 
are most remarkable, and quite unlike the usual wretched snapshot 
and blurred reproductions with which too many naturalists’ books 
are nowadays illustrated.” 
Standard.—‘‘ The East has ever been a place of wonderment, but the 
writer of ‘ Bombay Ducks’ brings before Western tyes a new set of 
pictures. . . . The book is entertaining, even to the reader who is 
not a naturalist first and a reader afterwards. .. . The illustrations 
cannot be too highly praised.” 
Daily News.—‘‘ This new and sumptuous book. , . . Mr. Dewar gives 
us a charming introduction to a great many interesting birds. 
Pall Mall Gazette.—“ Most entertaining dissertations on the tricks 
_ and manners of many birds and beasts in India.” : 
Graphic,—‘The book is written in a most readable style, light and 
easy, yet full of information, and not overburdened with scientific 
words and phrases. . . . The habits of the different birds are fully 
described, often in a very ing and i ing 
County Gentleman.—‘ Thoroughly entertaining to all who can appre- 
ciate either animal life as seen through practised eyes, or witty 
and humorous writing in any form.... The book is handsomely 
1 an attractive acquisition.” 
produced, and is 
Illustrated London News.—‘' Mr. Dewar... has collected a series of 
essays on bird life which for sprightliness and charm are equal to 
anything written since that classic, ‘The Tribes on my Frontier,’ 
was published.” 
Indian Daily News.—“ Mr. Dewar's excellent book. .. . We sincerely 
hope that our readers will derive the same lively pleasure from the 
reading of this book as we have done.” 
Yorkshire Daily Observer.—‘‘ This handsome and charming book. .. 
the author has many interesting observations to record, and he does 
so in a very racy manner.” 
Dublin Express.—'Mr. Dewar’s account of the ‘ Naturalist’s El 
Dorado’ is Par dcalaly captivating, and is rendered not the less so 
by the splendidly produced photographs of living birds.” 
Manchester Guardian.—“. . . A series of clever and accurate essays 
on Indian natural history written by a man who really knows the 
birds and beasts... .” 
Shooting Times.—" .. . a more delightful work than ‘ Bombay 
Ducks' has not passed through our hands for many a long day, 
and the way the themes are written are so much to the point. 
There is not a dull line in the book, which is beautifully illus- 
trated... .” 
Truth.— ... A naturalist with a happy gift for writing in a bright 
and entertaining way, yet without any sacrifice of scientific 
accuracy. ...' 
