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partridges, mynahs, and especially Coracias indica. Jerd. B. I. 

 I, 37. 



Tinnunculus. Less rapacious and more insectivorous. Jerd. 

 B. I. I, 38. 



1265. Tinnunculus alaudarius. Kestrel. Smaller birds than 

 larks : large insects, reptiles and mammals. B. N. H. S. J. X, 505 1 

 Subsists on insects (especially locusts), lizards, frogs, mice, rarely 

 if ever touching birds. F. I. Ill, 430. Chief food is lizards, but 

 it also eats rats and mice, insects (especially grasshoppers and 

 locusts), rarely young or sickly birds. (Flown in Europe at larks, 

 quails, &c.). Jerd. B. 1. 1, 39. Rats and mice. E. B. C. N. H., 148. 



Small mammals and coleoptera furnish most of the food, a 

 few birds very seldom game lizards, frogs, worms, grass- 

 hoppers, and insect-larvae varying the diet. E. C. N. H., 175. 



1266. Tinnunculus cenchris. Lesser Kestrel. More gregarious 

 and more insectivorous than the Kestrel. F. I. Ill, 431. Mountain 

 Pipit : known to be insectivorous and has been seen seizing insects 

 on the wing and pulling off elytra of beetles. Jerd. B. 1. 1, 140. 



Microhierax (Falconets) feed on insects. Imp. Gaz. I, 254. 



1267. Microhierax eutolmus. Red-legged Falconet. Small 

 birds and insects : formerly trained for small birds. F. I., 433. 



1268. Microhierax melanoleucus. White-legged Falconet. In- 

 sects on wing. A. S. B. XLV, 67. Scimitar babbler. B. N. H. 

 S.J. ? 



1269. Microhierax fringillarius. Black-legged Falconet. On 

 dry branch from whence it pounces on its prey, beetles, &c. B. N. H. 

 S. J. XVII, 764. More on small birds than other members of the 

 genus. F. I. Ill, 434. Insects and birds even as large as quails. 

 E. B. C. N. H., 173. 



1270. Poliohierax insignis. Feilden's Hawk. Chiefly insects 

 with an occasional mouse, snake or lizard. F. I. Ill, 436. 



Pandionidce. The Osprey, a migrant, is generally distributed 

 in suitable localities near the sea coast and backwaters throughout 



