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TO THE READER. 



As we hope, hereafter, to publish an improved and revised 

 edition of this work, we shall be grateful for any scraps of infor- 

 mation, however small, that any one> into whose hands "The 

 Game Birds" may fall, may be able to furnish us, supple- 

 mentary to what we have herein recorded, in regard to the Ver- 

 nacular names, distribution, habits, food, notes, nidification, &c, 

 &c, of any one of the species included in this work. 



No doubt we have fallen into many errors, possibly we may 

 have omitted some species ; any one pointing out such errors 

 or omissions will confer a great favour on us. 



Letters may at all times be addressed to me to " Rotkney, 

 Simla ;" wherever I may, at the moment, chance to be, such 

 letters, if I am still in the land of the living, will always be 

 promptly forwarded to me. 



Allan Hume. 



