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VEGETABLES. 



The two Cranes Grus communis and An'hrop ides virgo are 

 both said to take various vegetables and possibly do some 

 damage. 



WATERMELONS. Grus communis (Common Crane). 

 NUTMEGS (Myristica fragrans). 



The Pied Imperial Pigeon is the only species of bird that is re- 

 corded as eating these nuts, a fact which it's generic name, 

 Myristicivora seems to imply. 

 PALM NUTS (Areca catechu). 



These nuts are eaten by some of the Fruit Pigeons and Parrots. 

 WALNUTS (Nuciphraga hemispila). 



Nuts are taken generally by Magpies, Jays, and (Sittidee) 

 Nuthatches. 



ANIMAL DIET OF BIRDS. 



Mammals. Rats and mice of various species are the two forms 

 of this kind of food most usually eaten. Rats are injurious, but 

 mice we cannot include as such as many species are of no agricul- 

 tural importance, and shrews are often not discriminated from mice 

 in referring to bird's food and this latter group is beneficial. 



Mice are eaten occasionally by one or two Kingfishers, by 

 nearly every species of Owl and Hawk, and occasionally by 

 Moorhens and Cranes. 



Rats are taken by very much the same class of birds, but not 

 apparently by the two latter groups. 



Small mammals, probably referring to rats and mice, are said 

 to be eaten by Shrikes, Ground Cuckoos, Horn-bills, Owls and 

 Hawks of various species, and occasionally by Cranes and Bustards. 



Hares, which are of little if any economic importance, are taken . 

 by a few of the larger species of Owls and Hawks. Squirrels, w r hich 

 are injurious, are taken occasionally by Lanius lahtorr, by Owls 

 (Syrnium ocellatum and Nyctej_jc tndi^c) and one or two species 

 of Eagles (Aquil'i vindi'in^ A. m_cul _/ , Hier<Jtus pennatus, and 

 Spiz etus cirrhttus.} The common striped squirrel (Sciurus palma- 



