212 THE FOOD OF BIRDS IN INDIA. 



used chiefly for capturing partridges, quails, courier plovers 

 Cursorius and even rock-pigeon Pterocles. Jerd. B. I. I, 52. 



1248. Accipiter virgatus. Besra Sparrow Hawk. Small birds 

 but also on lizards, and insects. F. I. Ill, 405. The female used 

 for capturing partridge, quail, snipe, and doves : the male for 

 sparrows, brahminy mynahs Pastor paqodarum- and other small 

 birds. Jerd. B. I. I, 54. 



Pernis. Bees and wasps, the combs and the young of which 

 form the principal food of this genus. 



1249. Pernis cristatus. Crested Honey-Buzzard. Honey and 

 the young of bees and wasps; but it will also eat caterpillars, ants, 

 and any other insects, and occasionally rats and reptiles, and it 

 said by the natives the eggs and the young of other birds. Jerd. B. 

 1. 1, 120. Oriolus melanocephalus. Eggs and young of small birds. 

 B. N. H. S. J. Ill, 758. Fond of grubs of bees and wasps. E. L . L , 

 N.H., 148. 



Stomachs examined 



9-4-07. 2 Chrotogonui sp. 



24 Camponotui comprrtsut. 

 3 Frogs. 

 [1 Lizard. 



8-6-08. Remains of a small bird ? chicken. 



12-8-08. 25 Chrotogonus. 

 13-6-07. 5 Schizodtictylua monstrosug. 



1 Brachytrypes achatinus. 

 3 Small frogs. 



Summary. Three birds out of 4 took 63 insects, of these ^ 

 being injurious and 24 neutral ; 2 took insects only. 



Two Birds took frogs, 1 a lizard, and one a chicken. 



Baza. Feed upon the ground on chameleons, grasshoppeis, 

 and other insects. E. B. C. N. H., 173. 



1251. Baza lophotes. Black Crested Baza. Insects : a lizard 

 once found in its stomach. F. I. 3., 410. Almost entirely insecti- 

 vorous. Jerd. B. I. I, 111. Crops full of grasshoppers, and the 

 remains of a brightly coloured Cicada with red underwings, four 



