BY THE SAME AUTHOR
ANIMALS OF NO IMPORTANCE
THE INDIAN CROW: HIS BOOK
BOMBAY DUCKS
BIRDS OF THE PLAINS
INDIAN BIRDS
JUNGLE FOLK
GLIMPSES OF INDIAN BIRDS
BIRDS OF THE INDIAN HILLS
IN COLLABORATION WITH FRANK FINN
THE MAKING OF SPECIES
I am indebted to the editor of The Pioneer for permission torepublish the sketches that form this calendar, and to Mr. A. J.Currie for placing at my disposal his unpublished notes on thebirds of the Punjab.
Full descriptions of all the Indian birds of which the doingsare chronicled in this calendar are to be found in the fourvolumes of the Fauna of British India devoted to birds;popular descriptions of the majority are given in my IndianBirds.
HARROW,
January 1916.
| Up—let us to the fields away, And breathe the fresh and balmy air. | ||
| MARY HOWITT. |
Take nine-and-twenty sunny, bracing English May days, steal fromMarch as many still, starry nights, to these add two rainymornings and evenings, and the product will resemble a typicalIndian January. This is the coolest month in the year, a monthwhen the climate is invigorating and the sunshine temperate. Buteven in January the sun's rays have sufficient power to causethe thermometer to register 70° in the shade at noon,