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insects but also mice and rats, and probably young and feeble birds. 

 Eating the carcase of a dove that had been dead some time. Jerd. 

 B. 1. 1, 113. Insects, snakes, small mammals and more rarely birds. 

 E. B. C. N. H., 171. I saw one of these birds once capture and eat 

 a frog. 



Circus. ---Harriers. Insects, reptiles, small mammals, and 

 young or sickly birds. ' Jerd. B. I. I, 95. Mainly small mammals, 

 but partly of birds, reptiles, fish, frogs, insects and even eggs, 

 Hunt rats and mice. E. B. C. N. H., 148 and 155. Hawking over 

 every field in search of small birds, and lizards, ortolan and quail 

 being especially marked out as their quarry. Bengal Gaz., 

 Monghyr, 22. 



1233. Circus macrurus. Pale Harrier. Lizards and insects, 

 occasionally mice and young or sickly birds. F. I. Ill, 383. 



Reptiles, and insects, also occasionally on small mice and 

 shrews and weak, sickly or wounded birds, especially quails. 

 Jerd. B. I. I, 97. Larks. Bom. Gaz., Cutch., Vol. X, p. 58. 



1234. C. cineraceus and 1235. C. cyaneus have similar 

 habits. 



1236. C. melanoleucus. Pied Harrier. Chiefly snakes, liz- 

 ards, frogs, insects with birds and mice. F. I. Ill, 386. Frogs, 

 mice and other small prey. B. N. H. S. J. XVII, 970. Carrion 

 from the beach, small mammals, birds and grasshoppers. E. B. C. 

 N. H., 167. 



1237. C. ceruginosus. Marsh Harrier. Teal. B. N. H. b. J. 

 X, 505. Frogs, fish, insects, small and weakly birds, and eggs, 

 and often carries off a wounded snipe or teal, or makes a meal off 

 a wounded duck that is too heavy for it to carry away. F. I. Ill, 

 387. Chiefly frogs, fish, and water insects, also rats, shrews, and 

 various young or weakly birds : not infrequently carries off a 

 wounded snipe or even a teal. Jerd. B. I. I, 100. Larks. Bomb. 

 Gaz., Cutch, Vol. X, p. 58. 



Buteo. Buzzards. Mammals, reptiles and insects seized on 

 the ground. F. I. Ill, 389, Frogs and lizards. B. N. H. S. J. 



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