To bring together all available information in one place, G. E. 
Mason's list of foods is reproduced in Table 3. 
Table 3. Foods consumed by 30 Black Francolins (F. f. asiae) 
collected near Delhi, India, in 1912 
SR SN FE 7 EEE EE CE TT EI EERE Sy TE TRE SD 




2 A a A Sy aa 




Foods : Parts Eaten Season 
oe8) MeL ea Coe ne ___Sp. Su. Fall Wi. 
Vegetable 
Oats . seed 4 16 2 (a) 
Wheat seed 1 5 1 
Millet — seed 2 
Oats husk 2 
Oats blade 1 
Pea 7 seed 1 
‘Wild fig fruit. 1 
Abrus precatorius seed 1 
24 « different, unidentified 
wild legumes seed 9 many 4 
Animal 
Camponotus compressus 4 15 2 
Himatismus sp... 3 16 
Aecophylla s maragdina 1 8 1 
Mesomorpha villiger’ 2 1 
Opatrum sp. . 1 
Polyrachis simplex 1 
Myllocerus dis. discolor 
Myrmecocystus | setipes 
Cydnis nigritus 
Myllocerus blandus 
Opatrum depressum 1 
Schenoptera gossypii 1 
Weevil 1 
Spider 1 
Gastromargus sp. 
Brachytrypes achatinus 
Hister opacus 
Hister bipustulata 
Elaterid sp. 
Acantholepis fravenfeldi 
Trox indicus (7) 
Cydnis 3] Sp. 
Crematogaster subnuda 
Grasshopper whole 
| jaw 
Cicindelid head 
Sphex lobatus 
Chrysis sp. 
Melolonthid 
Small caterpillar 
Agrotis segetis 
Lamellicorn 
RPE BE EEE ENN NNYNYNYNYDNNENNHWPRUUUU 
(a) Number of crops in which this food was found. 
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