Excerpt from Jungle Folk, Indian Natural History Sketches It is not of the bigger jungle folk that I write - of lions, tigers, leopards, bears, bison, or even deer and antelopes; for of these it is vouchsafed to no man - not even to the shikari, who spends years in the jungle - to obtain more than an occasional fleeting glimpse. The subjects of my theme are the lesser fry - vivacious mynas, noisy babblers, vociferous cuckoos, silent herons, beautiful pittas, graceful wagtails, elegant terns, melodious rock-chats, cheeky squirrels. A cheery crowd are these. The man who passes his days in India without knowing them misses much of the pleasure of life. 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.