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 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.

the last year or two I have been repeatedly pressed to write a simple account of the Birds of Bombay. It has been represented to me that there are many who would like to know the common birds that appear in their gardens and about their houses, to learn their names and something of their natures, without "collecting" them, and that there is no book from which such