Department or Zoology, S.Y. University, Tirupati, (A.P.)
* Present address: Jr. Rodent Specialist C.P.P.T.I., Hyderabad - 30.
The food composition as studied by the identification of stomach contents of the predomine-ntly occurring lesser bandicoot rat, Bandicota bengalensis and the Indian field mouse, Mus booduga in the fields around Tirupati showed 52% green vegetative matter belonging to different weeds, 13% grain of the crop, 4% animal remains and remaining stem, leaf, root and algal contents.
