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Ithagene i. -Blood Pheasants. Grass, insects, berries, and shoots 

 of juniper or pine. E. B. C. N. H., 218. The principal food con- 

 sists of tops of pine and juniper in spring, berries, mosses, and bam- 

 boo leaves in winter. A. C. M., 89. 



1347. Ithagenes cruentus. Blood Pheasant. Dr. Hooker : 

 " The principal food of the bird consisting of the tops of the pine 

 and juniper in spring, and the berries of the latter in autumn and 

 winter, its flesh has always a strong flavour/* Jerd. B. I. Ill, 523. 

 Mr. Hodgson: ' They greatly affect the clumps of mountain 

 bamboo and teed about on ground amongst these much like domestic 

 fowls, turning over the leaves and grasses with their feet, scratching 

 about in the ground and picking up insects, grass seeds, grain, and 

 wild fruits." Dr. Hooker is also quoted. Dr. Jerdon: ' The food 

 of those examined consisted entirely of vegetable matter/' Mr. 

 W. Blandford: " In their crops I found small fruits, leaves, seeds, 

 and in one instance what appeared to me to be. the spore cases of a 

 moss ; there were no leaves or berries of juniper, and the birds were 

 excellent eating. H. M. G. B. I. I, 155-157. 



It is said by Hooker to feed on the tops of pine and juniper 

 and the berries of the latter, but those killed by me in September 

 had fed on various leaves, seeds, small fruits, &c., not on conifers. 

 F. I. XXIV, 104. 



Perdicince. The food consists of grain, insects and their lar- 

 va. E. B. C. N. H., 218. 



1.348. Ophrysia superciliosa. Mountain Quail. Captain 

 Hutton : ' Amongst the long grass feeding on the fallen seeds" 

 They feed on grass seeds (and probably insects and berries). H. 

 M. G. B. II, 106-107. Hutton and others " Seeds of grass." F. 

 I. IV, 106. 



J349. Galloperdix spadicea. Ked Spur-fowl. It feeds on 

 various kinds of grain, and very much on insects, especially on various 

 kinds of bugs, larvae of small Blattse, &c. Jerd. B. I. Ill, 543. Their 

 food consists chiefly, according to my experience, of grain and seeds 

 of all kinds, and small jungle fruit, the berries of the dwarf Zizy- 



