“…common myna (Chandra et al 1990), pigeons (Singh et al 1998;Khan et al 2009), red avadavats ), Indian parakeets, house sparrows, common myna and white breasted king fishers ), house crows (Beg et al 2008), poultry , bank myna (Rajput et al 2009), cattle egret, striated babblers, snipe, green pigeon (Ahmad et al 2010, Ahmad Arya et al 2012Ahmad Saxena et al 2012), common hoopae (Agarwal et al 2011), common baya , and finches have been provided by workers during the past two decades. Marshall (1981) reviewed the work done on the population ecology of the ectoparasitic insect.…”