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B. I. Ill, 449. Occurs where Banyans and Pipals are ripening. 

 Bomb. Gaz. XII, 36; and XXIII, 67. Betul, D. G., 22 ; Nagpur, 

 D. G., 20. Banyan, pipal, bair, Bombay Gaz., Ahmedabad, IV, 83 ; 

 and Broach II, 45. 



Osmotreron. Fruit eaters rarely descending to the ground, 

 F. L, IV. 



Carpophagince. Fruit pigeons. Eat vast quantities of fruit 

 (some are very fond of mice). E. B. C. N. H., 346. Fruit. Imp. 

 Gaz. I, 255. 



1284. Carpophaga cenea. Green Imperial Pigeon. Fruit buds 

 of Avicennia. Jerd. B. I, III, 456. Figs and other fruits. B. N. 

 H. S. J. XVIII, 971. 



1286. Ducula insignis. Hodgson's Imperial Pigeon. Fruits, 

 buds of Avicennia and other plants which affect salt and brackish 

 swamps, and also pick up salt earth. Jerd. B. I. Ill, 459. Ficus. 

 B. N. H. S. J. XVII, 971. 



1289. Myristicivora bicolor. Pied Imperial Pigeon. Largely 

 the mace which encloses the nut-meg. E. B. C. N. H., 328. 



1290. Catenas nicobarica. Nicobar Pigeon. Mainly on seeds 

 on the ground. E. B. C. N. H., 334. Seeds like prune and sun 

 flower B. N. H. S. J. XII, 688. 



Phabince. 



Chalcophaps. On the ground on seeds and fruits. E. B. C. N. 

 H., 339. 



1291. Chalcophaps indica. Bronze-winged Dove. Berries and 

 seeds picked up from the ground. F. I. IV, 27. 



Columbince. The food of the Wood-pigeon is grain, beech-mast, 

 acorns, turnips, and tender shoots of plants. The great damage, 

 however, done to crops, such as turnips, peas or barley, by the flocks 

 counterbalances their economic value to a certain extent, the most 

 typical forms being the worst of offenders. E. B. C. N. H., 328, 



1292. Columba intermedia. Indian Blue Rock-pigeon. Very 

 destructive to grain, assembling in vast flocks in the cold weather. 



