23 THE FOOD OF BIRDS IN INDIA. 



phus (Jherberry), the figs of the pipal and its congeners, but 1 

 have often found the remains of bugs, beetles, and other ir seels in 

 their crops mixed with these. H. M. G. B. I, 239. Its food con- 

 sists of small fruit, seeds and insects. F. I. IV, 108. 



1350. G. bicalcarata. Ceylon Spur-fowl. Mr. Hara. ' They 

 feed on various kinds of grain, but peihaps chiefly on white ants 

 and various other insects and their larvae/' H. M. G. 

 B. I, 262. 



1352. Bambusicola fytchii. Western Bamboo -Partridge. Feed 

 habitually on the ground on grass seeds, berries and insects. H. M. 

 G. B. II, 97. 



1353. Rollulus roulroul. Green Wood-Quail. Dense forest, 

 feeding on berries, seeds, tender shoots and leaves, and insects of 

 various sorts. H. M. G. M. Ill, 103. Berries, seeds, tender shoots, 

 leaves and insects. F. I. IV, 112. Seeds, berries, and insects. E. 

 B. C. N. H., 221. 



1354. Excalfactoria chinensis. Blue-breasted Quail. They feed 

 chiefly on grass seeds ; very little so far as my experience goes, on 

 either grain or insects, though they do undoubtedly eat both of these. 

 But I have always found them in meadows, where there was but 

 little cultivation in the neighbourhood, and perhaps, when they 

 occur where millet fields are common, they may as I have been 

 told, feed equally on these small grains. Davison : " Those that 

 I have examined and I have lately dissected numbers- had eaten 

 only grass seeds." H. M. G. B. II, 164. Its food consists chiefly of 

 grass seeds. F. I. IV. 114. Mainly upon seeds. E. B. C. N. H., 219. 



Coturnix. True Quails. The food consists of seeds, slugs, 

 and insects. E. B. C. N. H., 221. 



1355. Coturnix communis.- Common or Grey Quail. It is 

 found in long grass, cornfields, stubble and fields of pulse, wandering 

 about according as the crops ripen in different parts of the country. 

 Hodgson states that they reach the valley of Nepal, in greatest num- 

 bers, at the ripening of the autumn and spring crops respectively. 

 Jerd. B. I. Ill, 588. 



