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Totanus glareola. Wood Sandpiper. t 



Totanus ochropus. Green Sandpiper. 



Totanus calidris. Redshank. --enfal. 



Tringa minuta. Little Stint. Neutral. 



Gallinago ccelettia. Common Snipe. Beneficial. 



STEGANOPODES. 



PHALACROCORACIDJE. Cormorants. 



Phalacrocorax javanicus. Little Cormorant. Neutral. 



Eat fish only. 

 HERODIONES. 

 IBIDID/E. 



Inocotis papillosus. The Black II is. Injurious. 



In my opinion a very destructive bird for eating 

 frogs which themselves eat so many injurious 

 insects. 

 ARDEID.& Herons. 



Bnbulcus coromandus. Cattle Egret. Beneficial. 



Ardeola grayi. Pond Heron. Injurious. 



Feeds on Dragonflies. 

 ANSERES. 



Quercedula circia. Garganey or Blue-winged 



Teal. Neutral. 



In the main the birds common in Pusa are from our point of 

 view beneficial. I would protect the crows, though 8 ate frogs, be- 

 cause of their feeding on Chrotogonus, the very destructive surface 

 grass-hopper, but T admit I would like to have 10 stomachs daily 

 throughout a whole year on which to form a better estimate. Mr. 

 Mason does not hold this opinion, ' ' crows cannot be definitely class- 

 ed as beneficial and require if any thing to have their numbers 

 kept within certain limits as is the case with C. frugilegus 

 in England/' Having to deal less with birds and more with the 

 insects like Chrotogonus, I may attach too much importance to 

 the insect-eating function of this bird and clearly there is room for 

 two opinions. 



The Indian Tree Pie and Indian Grey Tit are clearly beneficial 

 and are not probably capable of protection or encouragement. 

 Man does not affect them. 



The same applies to the Seven Sisters, the White-eye, the Com- 

 mon loras, the Bulbul, and the Nuthatch, all useful small birds 

 whose function is a very important one and which require probably 

 neither protection nor encouragement. The King-Crow is a most 

 important bird, far more so than the records seem to me to 



