Excerpt from Garden and Aviary Birds of India Anglo-indian readers of the present Work will notice that birds of prey, waders, game-birds and water fowls have been omitted therefrom, although some species of these - such as the kite - are among the very commonest birds of the East; but this was done owing to exigencies of space, which compelled greater atten tion to some of the small birds. In dealing with these, also, I have endeavoured, where a choice had to be made, to deal with as many different groups as possible, rather than to particularize many species in one group, in the hope of making the book serviceable as an intro duction to the study of. The ornithology of our Eastern Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.