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Gallopeitlix spadiceus = Red Spur-fowl. 



Francolinus vulgaris = Kalatitur or Black Partridge. 



Francolinus pictus = Painted Partridge. 



Ortygornis guiaris = B mtitar or The Kyah Partridge. 



Coturiiix; communis = Batter or Gray Quail. 



But in a country such as India, where an enormous percentage of the 



inhabitants are purely vegetable feeders, the number of birds killed for 



tlie table (except, perhaps, in the neighbourhood of great towns, such as 



Calcutta) is insignificant. Of all the birds mentioned in the above list 



killed both for their plumage and their flesh, hardly one can be called an 



iasectivorotis bird. 



The food of the Herons and P"grets consists entirely of fish and 



frogs ; the Cattle Egret perhaps devours a few grasshoppers, but the 



bulk of its food consists of fish and tadpoles; the Snake Bird is entirely 



piscivorous. 



Pheasants only occur at considerable elevations in the Himalayas j 



they are chiefly vegetable feeders, though now and then they maydevour 



a few insects. 



Parrots are all fruit-eaters and do considerable damage in this 



way. Neither Snipe nor Duck are ins' ctivorous in a true sense of 



the word. 



The following is a list of the purely insectivorous birds : — 



I'araduXoruiLliinse = Crow tits. 



Crateropodiuse = Babbling Thrushes. 



Timeliinse = Solitary Babblers. 



Brachypteryginae = Ground Babblers. 



Liotrichmsse = loras and Green Bulbuls. 



Dicrurida3 = Drongos or King Crows. 



Certhiidae = Creepers. 



Sylviidse = Warblers. 



Laiiiidge •— Shrikes and I\Univcts. 



Muscicapidse = Fly-catchers. 



Saxicoiinse = Chats. 



Piuticillinse = Red Starts and Robins. 



Accentorinai = Hedge Sparrows, 



HirundinidjB = Swallows. 



Motacillida} = Wagtails and Pipits. 



Pittidse = Ground Thrushes. 



Cypselidse = Swifts. 



Caprimulgidse = Goatsuckers. 



Picidse = Woodpeckers. 



Upupidse ^ Hoopoes. 



Meropidae = Bee-eaters. 



Coraciidae = Rollers. 



Trogonidse = Trogous. 



CuculidsB = Cookoos. 



