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food consists of seeds, insects, worms, small mammals, birds, and 

 molluscs. E. B. C. N. H., 357. 



1122. Rhopodytes viridirostris. Small Green-billed Malkoha. 

 Various large insects grasshoppers, mantids, caterpillars, &e., 

 Jerd. B. I. I., 347. 



1123. R. tristis. Large Green-billed Malkoha. Large insects, 

 mantids, crickets, grasshoppers and also large caterpillars. Jerd. 

 B. I. I, 346. Insects of all kinds. F. I. Ill, 232. 



1124. R. diardi. Diard's Green-billed Malkoha. Insects of 

 all kinds. F. I. Ill, 233. 



1126. Phcenicophaes pyrrhocephalus.'Red-taceA Malkoha. 

 Chiefly fruit, occasionally small insects. F. 1. Ill, 235. A fruit- 

 eating species. E. B. C. N. H., 357. 



1127. Rhamphococcyx er^Arot/na/fo/s. -Coleoptera, Hemiptera 

 and very large caterpillars. F. I. Ill, 236. 



1128. Rhinortka chlorophcea.- Raffle's Green-billed Malkoha. 

 Insects. F. I. Ill, 237. 



1129. Taccocua leschenaulti. Sirkeer Cuckoo. Lizards, lo- 

 custs, beetles. Jerd. B. I. I, 354. Feeds on ground chiefly on 

 grasshoppers and other insects, such as beetles and termites (whose 

 nsts Jerdon says it is often found near), occasionally on lizards. 

 F. I. Ill, 239. 



Stomachs examined 



22-6-08. 1 Opatrum sp. 



1 Coprid (? sp.). 



Alimentary canal and gizzard practically empty. 

 Some unidentifiable matter. 



Summary. Two neutral insects taken. 



1130. Centropus sinensis. Common Coucal or Crow-Phea- 

 sant. It eats various large insects, centipedes, scorpiors, lizards, 

 and small snakes and also slugs and cateipillars, occasiorally pil- 

 fering other birds' eggs. Jerd. B. I. I, 349. Feeds on ground 

 on insects and occasionally on lizards and small snakes. F. 1. III. 

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