PREFACE. 



The following pages are a verbatim transcript from 

 the Author's e Birds of India/ relating to the Game birds 

 and Wild-fowl of India, and are put in a separate form 

 to meet the views of such sportsmen as do not care to 

 possess a general work on the Ornithology of India. The 

 only birds omitted, which might perhaps have been in- 

 troduced, are the European Crane, Grus cinerea, and the 

 Demoiselle Crane, Anthropoides virgo, both occasionally 

 called Koolung by sportsmen, though the name is properly 

 restricted to the former bird ; and these will be found 

 described in the Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 664 et seq. 



