The Water Fowl Of India And Asia Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Water Fowl of India and Asia The favorable reception which the Anglo-Indian public has been kind enough to accord to the present work in its first form "How to know the Indian Ducks" has been deemed a justification for the issue of this revised edition, which has not only been brought up to date as far as Indian waterfowl are concerned, but amplified by the addition of brief notices and descriptions of all non-Indian Asiatic species. Thus the book is now a complete guide to all the wild fowl of Asia from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, and will, it is hoped, be serviceable to sportsmen East and West of our Indian Empire, as well as affording means of identification to Anglo-Indians of species at present not known as Indian, but likely in the future to come over our borders, as the Red-breasted Goose and Mandarin Duck have done since the publication of this work in its original form. By way of keeping to the original plan of a work of reference for Anglo-Indians especially, however, the matter dealing with non-Indian Asiatic species has been kept in small print, and these species are not included in the keys, to simplify matters as much as possible. The majority of the ducks the sportsman is likely to meet with, it must be remembered, are found all across Asia in greater or less abundance, so that if he knows the Indian species he will be well advanced in his knowledge of those he may meet with in shooting elsewhere in Asia; or in Europe either, for that matter. 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.