The Food Of Birds In India PDF Download

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Department of Agricultural in India: The Food of Birds in India The following pages contain a summary of the recorded facts of the Food of Birds in India, and a statement of the food of the individual birds shot or observed by Mr. Mason at Pusa in 1907, 1908, 1909). It has been necessary to edit the original manuscript and I have added a short section (IV) in which I have tried to sum up the practical results and to make the question clearer to the reader who is not an Entomologist. My responsibility ends there, and the student of birds will find Mr. Mason's observations in the body of the work. The identification of the insects in the stomachs was partly done by the staff in charge of the collections here and Mr. C. H. Tipper kindly identified the Molluscs in the Indian Museum. I have revised the nomenclature of the insects throughout and believe it to be correct; the author is responsible for the identification of the birds. The identification of material in the stomachs is not easy and has not been possible in the case of the seeds; we will gladly do what we can to assist other observers in this respect with insects if they will send preserved stomachs, but we can only do so, as a rule, in the case of birds shot in the plains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.