_Indian Field_.--"... not a volume that will grow dusty and uncared for on a neglected shelf." _Times of India_.--"The book has a charm all its own, and is written with rare humour, a humour that in no way detracts from its scientific utility." _Englishman_.--"One of the most interesting books on bird-life we have seen." INDIAN BIRDS A KEY TO THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA BY DOUGLAS DEWAR PRESS OPINIONS _Pall Mall Gazette_.--"This practical and useful work ... is a key to the everyday birds of the Indian plains, in which birds are classified according to their habits and outward differences ... and familiarity with these pages would enable the average man in a few weeks to know all the birds he meets in an Indian station." _Daily Mail_.--"The plan of this clever little volume ... is as simple as it is ingenious.... It is a safe and thorough guide." _Athenaeum_.--"Mr. Dewar is a capable guide." _Manchester Guardian_.--"... new, original and invaluable to the beginner ... it is a small book, but it represents a wonderful amount of thoughtful ingenuity and patient work." _Daily News_.--"We feel inclined to defy any Indian bird to hide its identity from an enquirer armed with this volume." _Truth_.--"An admirable practical handbook of Indian ornithology." _Scotsman_.--"Mr. Dewar's compact, clearly classified, concise and comprehensive manual ... cannot but prove eminently serviceable." _Spectator_.--"The book is most carefully compiled and much ingenuity is displayed in framing this artificial analysis." _Western Daily Mercury_.--"A very interesting volume." _Manchester Courier_.--"All ornithologists in India ... will appreciate and value 'Indian Birds.'" _Literary Post_.--"... a model of all that such a book should be." _Pioneer_.--"The plan of the book is unique.... It can be heartily recommended." _Indian Field_.--"We can thoroughly recommend this book to all not versed in ornithology and who wish to know our birds without having to kill them." JUNGLE FOLK ACCOUNTS OF SOME OF THE SMALLER FRY OF THE INDIAN JUNGLE BY DOUGLAS DEWAR PRESS OPINIONS _Westminster Gazette_.--"Mr. Dewar writes brightly and cleverly about these lesser jungle folk." _Scotsman_.--"... interesting and delightful." _Evening Standard_.--"The author ... writes not only out of the fulness of his knowledge, but in a pleasant unpedantic style." _Liverpool Daily Post_.--"... most readable and enjoyable." _Sunday Times_.--"We give his book the highest praise possible when we say that it will serve as a matter-of-fact commentary to Mr. Kipling's 'Jungle Books.'" _Irish Independent_.--"... a work of the most captivating charm." _Outlook_.--"... pleasant little essays." _Literary World_.--"This lively book ... abounds in word-pictures and happy humour." _Glasgow Evening News_.--"Mr. Douglas Dewar writes with accustomed grace and sympathetic knowledge."