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Para-jumble (sunbirds in India): Reorder the sentences to describe diet and pollination, brilliant colours, and their unrelated similarity to New World hummingbirds. S1 = "Sun birds are among the smallest of Indian birds." S6 = "Our common sunbirds are the purple sunbird (a glossy black species) and the purple-rumped sunbird (a yellow and maroon species)." Between S1 and S6, arrange the fragments to flow diet → colour → analogy: P = "Though they are functionally similar to the humming birds of the New World, they are totally unrelated." Q = "They do eat insects too." R = "They are also some of the most brilliantly coloured birds." S = "Sun birds feed on nectar mostly and help in pollination." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.

Difficulty: Medium

SQPR
RPSQ
QPRS
PSRQ

Correct Answer: SQPR

Explanation:

Given data

S1: Introduces sunbirds.
S: Primary diet (nectar) and ecological role (pollination).
Q: Secondary diet (insects).
R: Vivid plumage (brilliant colours).
P: Convergent functional similarity to hummingbirds despite no close relation.
S6: Common Indian species listed.

Concept / Approach
Start with ecology/diet (S, Q), then appearance (R), and finish with evolutionary relation vs. resemblance (P), which frames species examples in S6.

Why other orders fail
RPSQ jumps to colours before establishing life history; QPRS starts with insects, missing the primary nectar/pollination emphasis; PSRQ leads with analogy without prior context.

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