MASON AND LEFROY. 183 



Summary. Of 140 insects taken by 4 birds, 3 are beneficial, 

 131 injurious, and 16 neutral. 1 bird took beneficial ; 4 injurious and 

 1 neutral insects. 



t have seen the young fed by Crateropus canorus on cater- 

 pillars, and other insects possibly grasshoppers. 



1119. Coccystes coromandus. Red-winged Crested Cuckoo. 

 On caterpillars. F. I. Ill, 227. 



Eudynamis. Most frugivorous of all the Cuculince. Jerd. 

 B. 1. I, 342. 



1120. Eudynamis honorata. Koel. Almost exclusively on 

 fruit of various kinds, especially banian, pipal and other figs, and 

 also says Mr. Blythe much on that of Mimusops elengi, ejecting 

 large seeds of fruits it has eaten. Jerd. B. 1. 1, 343. Entirely fruit. 

 F. I. Ill, 230. Frugivorous. Imp. Gaz. I, 251. The Koel eats fruits 

 only. S. M. F. Z., 1908. Fesds on fruit. E. B. C. N. H., 356. 



1Q_3_07. Ficus. 



21-4-08. Ficus. 



13-5-07. Ficus. 



18-5-07. Litchi fruit. 



28-5-08. Hard seeded fruit, possibly litchi. 



16-6-07. Ficus. 



19-6-07. Mulberry. 



8-7-08. Ficus. 



8-7-08. Ficus. 



21-8-08. Ficus. 



The young birds as soon as they leave the nest are fed entirely 

 by their hosts the common crows on Ficus fruit. 



24-7-08. Ficus fruit. , . 



24-7-09. 



29-7-08. 



3-8-09. 



4-8-09. 



7-8-08. 



Summary. Of i5 birds examined, 12 have contained Ficus 

 fruit, 1 mulberry, and 2 ? litcbi. 



Many feed on the ground : a few are frugivorous. F. I. Ill, 

 127. They live mainly on insects. Jerd. B. I. I, 345, 319. The 



