86 Cleland, Cnnten/s of Stomachs and Crops of Birds. [2nd"oct. 



Some fragments of insects ; a small ]iiere of green leaf. 



(W.W.F.) Nothing deiinite : fragments of the wing-covers of 

 beetles : green-head ants. 

 Acanthiza lineata (M. 569, H. 194). Striated Tit. 



(a) Sydney. 15th October, 1909. 

 Numerous fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Small Coleoptera, weevils, ( hrysomelidae, &c., that 

 were probably taken upon the foliage of young gum-trees : small 

 Neuroptera : also remains of Diptera. 



(b) Middle Harbour, Sydney, ist August, 1910. 



Stomach full of insect fragments, amongst them the skins of 

 some insect pupae. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of small spider : wings of flies ; small larva; 

 and beetle remains. 



(r) Adelaide, S.A., May, 1910. 



Fragments of beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Plant bugs ; dipterous larva ; small caterpillar ; 

 remains of beetles. 



(d) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 3rd October, 1910. 



Small fragments of beetles. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of small beetles and small Hemiptera. 

 Acanthiza chrysorrhoa (M. 574. H. 19O). Yellow-rumped Tit. 



Berry, loth August, 1910. 



Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of beetles, wing-covers and legs : small 

 moth grul). 

 Acanthiza reguloides (M. 575, H. 197). Buff-rumped Tit. 



Bowral, April, 1910. 



Numerous fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Wings of small moths : heads of ants and small 

 grubs. 

 Sericornis frontalis (M. 5S2, H. 207). White-browed Scrub-Wren. 



{a) Middle Harbour. Sydney, 2nd April, 1910. 



Remains of a spider (?) and grub (?) : some small, white, oat- 

 shaped seeds and a curved black one. 



(W.W\F.) One spider : a large lepidopterous larva : a May fly 

 (Neuroptera), and wings of another neuropterous insect ; a few 

 remains of Coleoptera. 



(J.H.M.) Paniciim mars^inatinn, R. Br. (Graminea;). I am not 

 quite sure about the species, but it is certainly Pauiciini seed. 



(b) Middle Harbour, Sydney, nth June, 1910. 



Numerous remains of insects : several small seeds, of three 

 kinds. 



(W.W.F.) Egg capsule of cockroach : remains of small beetles, 

 and a book scorpion. 



(J.H.M.) A few grass-seeds, evidently Panicnm, but I do not 

 recognize the species : a seed of a leguminous plant, but I do not 

 recognize the genus : a seed of a plant that seems to be com- 

 ])Ositous. with all the traces of the pa]:iinis gone. 



