CONTENTS 
Page 
p) Pkeface 
(ii) List of Plates , 
(iiij Introduction: — 
(iv) Systematic Part: — 
I, Game Birds 
Hemijjodes 
Pig-eon$ 
Rails 
Sea-Birds and Waders 
Herons and Bitterns 
Eagles and Ha wits 
Owls 
Parrots 
Picarian Birds 
Trogons 
Cuckoos 
Woodpeckers and Barl>ets 
Broadbills 
Perching^ Birds ... 
1 
V 
J. 
Field Work 
I 
2, 
Geographical 
* 
3' 
On the Nomenclature of Birds 
... 13 
4- 
The Bird itself ... 
17 
5- 
Plan of the book 
... 24 
.'8 
36 
45 
66 
75 
82 
101 
104 
III 
114 
145 
146 
161 
164 
Popular Names ... 
Technical Names 
Malay Names 
237 
242 
247 
