MASON AND LEFEOY. 267 



IV, IV, 255. They feed largely on rice, both wild and cultivated, 

 their favourite food, but also eat seeds of some of the millets, of 

 grass, sedges and the like, and numbers of small insects, tiny shells, 

 and occasionally worms and grubs, and soft bodied Crustacea. 

 They feed in recently cut rice fields, sometimes in water picking 

 insects off the surface. " or again walking along the wather's edge 

 on sands or mud banks, picking up small shells and shrimps. " 

 H. M. G. B. I. Ill, 411-412. 



1457. Limosa lapponica. Small Crustacea, annelida and 

 mollusca. F. I. IV, 257. Chiefly on small shrimp-like things, 

 small mollusca, sand worms and insects, but most of their stomachs 

 contained matter that I took to be minute acephalae or jelly fish. 

 H. M. G. B. I. Ill, 418. 



1460. Totanus hypoleucus. Common in paddy fields from 

 September to May. B. N. H. S. J., XVI, 9. 



1461. Totanus glareola. Wet paddy fields from August to 

 May. B. N. H. S. J. XVI, 9. 



Stomachs examined 



6-1-07. 1 Zygopterid. 



4 Spiral shells. (Melania tuberculata). 

 1 Shell. 



Some sand. 



2-2-07. 3 Small snails. (Planorbis sp.). 



20-2-08. 2 Small snails. (No. 5). 



3 Seeds. 



1-3-09. 1 Small snail. (No. 5). 



1-3-09. 4 Small snails, (llanorbis). 



1 Shrimp. 



1-3-09. A few pieces of some shells. (Planorbis) and some sand. 



1-3-09. Some aquatic vegetable matter. 



5 Shot. 



1-3-09. 1 Shell. (Planorbit sp.). 



1 Hyphoporus aper. 



1 Small feather. 

 1-3-09. 2 Weevils. 



Other Coleopterous remains. 



1 Small black seed. 

 1-3-09. 4 Myllocerus sp. 



1 Opatrum sp. (Pusa No. 2499). 



1 Mesomorpha villiger. 



1 Ontlwphagus j/usilus. 

 6-3-09. 1 Shell. (Planorbis sp.). 



