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Francolinus pictus . . . . Painted Partridge. 



Ortygornis gularis . . . . Bantitar or The Kyah Partridge. 



Coturnix communis . . . . Batter or Gray Quail. 



" But in a country such as India, where an enormous percentage 

 of the inhabitants are purely vegetable feeders, the number of birds 

 killed for the table (except, perhaps, in the neighbourhood of great 

 towns, such as Calcutta) is insignificant. Of all the birds men- 

 tioned in the above list, both killed for their plumage and their 

 flesh, hardly one can be called an insectivorous bird. 



" The food of the Herons and Egrets consists entirely of fish and 

 frogs ; the Cattle Egret perhaps devours a few grasshoppers, but 

 the bulk of the food consists of fish and tadpoles ; the Snake Bird 

 is entirely piscivorous. 



" Pheasants only occur at considerable elevations in the Hima- 

 layas ; they are chiefly vegetable feeders, though now and then 

 they may devour a few insects. 



** Parrots are all fruit eaters and do considerable damage in this 

 way. Neither Snipe nor Ducks are insectivorous in a true sense of 

 the word. 



" The following is a list of the purely insectivorous birds : 



Paradoxornithinae . . . . . . Crow-tits. 



Crateropodinae . . . . . . Babbling Thrushes. 



Timeliinae . . . . . . Solitary Babblers. 



Brachypteriginae . . . . . Ground Babblers. 



Liotricinae . . . . . . loras and Green Bulbuls. 



Dicruridse . . . . Drongos or King crows. 



Certhiidae .. .. Creepers 



Sylviidae .. .. .. Warblers. 



Laniidse . . . . . . Shrikes and Minivets. 



Muscicapidae . . . . . . Fly-catchers. 



Saxicolinae . . . . . . Chats. 



Ruticillinae . . . . . . Redstarts and Robins. 



Accentorinae . . . . . . Hedge Sparrows. 



Hirundinidse . . . . . . Swallows. 



Motacillidae . . . . . . Wagtails and Pipits. 



Pittidae . . . . . . Ground Thrushes. 



Cypselidae .. .. .. Swifts. 



Caprimulgidae . . ; . Goatsuckers. 



Picidaa . . . . Woodpeckers. 



Upupidse . . . . Hoopoes. 



Meropidse ... . . Bee-eaters. 



Coraciadae .. .. Rollers. 



Trogonidse .. .. . Trogons. 



Cuculidse ... .. Cuckoos. 



