228 THE FOOD OF BIRDS IN INDIA. 



on roots which it digs up, grubs, insects, seeds and berries, &c. F. 

 I. IV, 84. E. B. C. N. H., 212. 



1334. Pucrasia macrolopha.- -Koklas or Pukras Pheasant. 

 The koklas feeds principally on seeds and buds ; it also eats roots, 

 grubs, acorns, seeds, and berries and moss and flowers. It will not 

 readily eat grain. Jerd. B. I. Ill, 526. 



Hume and Marshall quote Wilson in Jerdon B. I., as above and 

 add Captain Baldwin: "It is in the habit of hunting for food and 

 scratching about in search of insects among Khododendrons." 

 H.'M. G. B. I. I, 162. It lives chiefly on leaves and buds, but it 

 also feeds on seeds, berries, fruit, and insects. F. I. IV, 87. 



1335. Lophura rufa. Vieillot's Fire-backed Pheasant. Davi- 

 son : ' ' They never come into the open, but confine themselves to 

 the forests, feeding on berries, tender leaves and insects and grubs 

 of all kinds, and they are very fond of scratching about after the 

 manner of domes-tic poultry and dusting themselves. H. M. G. B. 

 1. 1, 213. 



1336. Gennceus albicristatus. White-crested Kalij Pheasant. 

 It feeds on roots, grubs, insects, seeds and berries, and the leaves 

 and shoots of shrubs. Jerd. B. I. Ill, 534. 



On frequented roads to which horse dung and droppings of 

 other beasts containing undigested grain attracts them. Wilson : 

 " It feeds on roots, grubs, insects, seeds and berries, and the leaves 

 and shoots of plants " Though Wilson does not notice it, they 

 feed greedily on grain. H. M. G. B. I. I, 178-181. 



1338. Gennceus melanonotus. Black-backed Kalij Pheasant. 

 The food of the Kalij is varied in the extreme. It eats almost every- 

 thing, in the shape of seeds, fruit, and insects, but is particu- 

 larly fond of the larvae of beetles out of cowdung and decayed wood, 

 arid of several of the jungle yams which bear tubers along their vines 

 at the axils of the leaves. When the vine borne tubers are exhausted, 

 it will scratch away the soil to get at those under ground. Natives 

 who have kept them alive say they thrive excellently on yams and 

 grubs only, but that no insects come amiss to them except ants* 



