MASON AND LEFBOY. 251 



there remains little to be said about the others unless you have 

 watched them very closely. H. M. G. B. I, 1, 235. 



1397. Rallina canningi. Andamanese Banded Crake. Cap- 

 tain Wimberley writes: "Its food appears to consist of irsects 

 and fresh water fish. The latter I infer, as some of those I sent 

 you were taken in snares laid on the ground baited with fresh- 

 water shrimps, which were all eaten/' H. M. G. B. 1, 242. A 

 forest bird haunting swampy ground," . . ." and feeding on insects 

 and fresh water Crustacea." F. I. IV, 170. Beetles, grasshoppers, 

 worms, small snails, caterpillars. B. N. H. S. J. 2, 696. 



1398. Amaurornis fuscus. Ruddy Crake. Rush-fringed ponds 

 on the leaf-paved surfaces picking up all kinds of irsects ard 



the larvse of these so abundantly adhering to the lotus leaves 



All kinds of aquatic insects, little moths, mosquitoes, tiny worms, 

 larvae of all sorts, grass seeds and small grains of various kinds 

 and tender green shoots or leaves (and as usual a quantity of fine 

 gravel) constitute the contents of their stomachs, but in very vary- 

 ing proportions, not only according to localities and perhaps ir di- 

 vidual idiosyncracies, but according to the hour at which they 

 were killed ; and I came to the conclusion (I give it for what it may 

 be worth) that in the early morning when out in the open they 

 feed chiefly on insects and that during the day. . .they feed more on 

 seeds and vegetable substances. H. M. G. B. 1, 219. Feeds on 

 insects and seeds. F. I. IV, 171. The moths noted probably 

 belong to the Hydro campinee, probably various spp. of Nymphula. 



1399. A.bicolor. Elwes' Crake. The contents of the stomach 

 of one specimen are noted as " insects, grain and gravel," and 

 Godwin-Austen says that two in capacity ate earthworms 

 greedily. H. M. G. B. 1, 224. Earthworms in captivity, XLIII 

 (11), 175. 



1400. Afa&ocl. Brown Crake. Its food too, although simi- 

 lar to that of the other species, includes a far larger piopoition of 

 tiny snail and other shells and of worms and slugs.. .After a good 

 fall of rain,, .chiefly on small worms. H. M. G, B. I, II, 226, 



