Synopsis With the exception of British Birds in the Plains of India, which appeared in The Civil and Military Gazette, and The Indian Corby, Birds in the Rain, and Do Animals Thinks? Which came out in The Times of India, the articles which compose this book made their debut in one or other of the following papers: The Madras Mail, The Indian Field, The Englishman. The author takes this opportunity of thanking the editors of the above named newspapers for permission to reproduce these essays. This book deals with forty-two chapters with appendix, glossary and index and fifteen illustrations of birds.