MASON AND LEFROY. 257 



The Koolan spends the day near or on the river Sutlej, and 

 dies inland to feed on the green crops, or sown grain morning and 

 evening. Punjab Gaz., Ludhiana. 



Koolan and Saras Cranes live on fish and frogs. The Koolan 

 is also partial to seeds of wheat and barley. Punjab Gaz., Hiss ar, 

 20. Anthropoides virgo and Grus cinerea ( = communis) occur in 

 flocks in wheat fields when the wheat is ripening. They do much 

 damage to the crops, and leave as soon as the wheat fields are 

 bare. Bomb. Gaz., Broach, 360. Paddy. B. N. H. S. J. XIV, 766. 



It is very destructive to grain fields, especially wheat in 

 Central India, and to Chenna (Cicer arietinum) in the Deccan. 

 It is stated that they occasionally eat mice, snakes, &c. Jerd. B 

 I. Ill, 667. This species together with grey geese is said to do an 

 immense amount of damage to young cereals of all sorts, but 

 especially wheat in various localities in the Central Provinces 

 (Saugor, Hoshangabad, &c.) 



Cranes with the exception apparently of the Great White Crane 

 are all injurious in India, committing great havoc on most cold 

 weather crops, especially the young cereals. They occur chiefly 

 in Northern India and Burma in the cold months. 



OTIDIDJE. 



Their food is chiefly insects, occasionally in dearth of this 

 aliment shoots of plants, grain and vegetable matter. Jerd. B. I. 

 Ill, 607. The diet consists chiefly of juicy plants, such as young 

 corn and turnips, clover and plantains, but it includes berries and 

 seeds, insects, and their larvae, molluscs, myriapods, frogs, or even 

 small reptiles and mammals. E. B. C. N. H., 263. 



1412. Otis tarda. Great Bustard. Our single Indian spe- 

 cimen bird fed entirely on green mustard leaves, and I may note 

 that according to all authorities it chiefly feeds on grain and leaves, 

 though also eating insects and does not appear to be ever the 

 coarse feeder that its Indian ally is. H. M. G. B. I, 2. 



1413. Otis tetrax. Little Bustard. With us they live chiefly 

 on the leaves of the sarson, a kind of mustard, but I have also found 



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