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is thickly covered with decayed leaves under which they search for 

 grubs. In autumn the Monaul feeds chiefly on a grub or maggot 

 which it finds under decayed leaves ; at other times on roots, leaves 

 and young shoots of various shrubs and grasses, acorns, and other 

 seeds and berries. In winter it often feeds in the wheat and barley 

 fields, but do p s riot touch the grain ; roots and maggots seem to be 

 its sole inducement for digging amongst it. Jerd. B. I. Ill, 511-514. 

 H. M. G. B. I. I, 126-128. It lives on insects, seeds, berries, leaves, 

 etc. F. I. IV, 97. Roots, grain, fruit, grass, and insect larvae. E. 

 B. C. N. H., 216. 



Tragopan. 'Horned Pheasants. Grubs, insects, roots, flowers, 

 fruits, and especially seeds or herbage. E. B. C. N. H., 217. 



1344. Tragopan satyra. Crimson Horned Pheasant. To judge 

 from those I have examined they feed much on insects, young green 

 shoots of bamboo, and on some onion- like bulbs, but Mr. Hodgson 

 notes that those he examined had fed on wild fruits, rhododendron 

 seeds, and in some cases entirely on aromatic leaves, bastard cinna- 

 mon, daphne, &c. H. M. G. B. I. I, 138. 



1345. T. melanocephalus. Western Horned Pheasant. Wilson 

 (Mountaineer) : " It feeds chiefly on the leaves of trees and shrubs : 

 of the former the box and oak are the principal ones, of the latter, 

 riugall and a shrub something like privet. It also eats roots-, flowers, 

 grubs, and insects, acorns, and seeds and berries of all kinds, but in 

 a small proportion compared with leaves. In confinement it will 

 eat almost any kind of food/' Jerd. B. I. Ill, 521. Mr. Young in 

 Kullu : "Its favourite food is the berry of an ever green plant called 

 in Kullu Dskha ; it is I believe a species of Carunda." Wilson 

 (Mountaineer) also quoted cf. Jerdon. B. I. H. M. G. B. I. I, 127. 

 This horned pheasant is a forest bird feeding chiefly on leaves of 

 trees and bamboos. F. I. IV, 101. 



1346. T. Uyth\ Grey-bellied Horned Pheasant. Mr. G- 

 Dammant : ' Two live examples eat worms and a kind of red 

 berry very greedily/' H. M. G. B. I. I, 132. The food it is said to 

 consist chiefly of berries. F. I. IV, 100. 



