QO Cleland, Contents of Stomachs and Crops of Birds. [jnf'o'ci 



(/■) Middle Harbour, Sydney, nth June, iqio. 



Some insect remains ; stomach nearly full of small flowers. 



(W.W.F.) Wing-covers of small beetles and legs of a spider, 

 probably taken on the flowers. 



(J.H.M.) Flowers of the Leucopogon, identical wtih those of (/?). 



{k) Middle Harbour, Sydney, nth June, 1910. 



Stomach stained a deep purple ; intestinal contents deep 

 purple ; portion of an insect ; pale yellowish skins of some fruit. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of one beetle. 



(J.H.M.) Skins of the inkberry {Phytolacca octandra, L.) The 

 note that the stomach was stained a deep purple gave me the 

 hint as to the oiigin of the skin, and I find that the stain is 

 identical with that of berries in this herbarium. 



(/) Neutral Bay, Sydney, 19th October, 1910. 



Vegetable fragments, apparently of a berry : a few minute 

 fragments of insects. 



Pardalotus punctatus (M. 726, H. 379), Spotted Pardalote. 

 Jindabyne, X.S.W., 12th December, 1910. 

 Minutely comminuted fragments of a metallic beetle. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of wing-covers of Coleoptera. 



Melithreptus brevirostris (M. 741, H. 313). Short-biUed Honey- 

 eater. 



[a) Sydney, 15th October, 1909. 



A few insect remains ; (?) part of a spider. 



(W.W.F.) Coleoptera. 



[h) Middle Harbour, 28th March, 1910. 



Several small grubs ; remains of a small brownish spider with 

 a number of small white young ones. 



(W.W.F.) Six spiders of different species ; a number of small 

 ones, probably on the back of one of the adult spiders when eaten ; 

 head of a froghopper (Homoptera) ; a number of lepidopterous 

 larvae of various moths. This is, by the contents of its stomach, 

 one of our good insectivorous birds. 



Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris (M. 752, H. 299). Spine-billed 

 Honey-eater. 



(a) Hawkesbury River, December, 1909. 



Small fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Many of the fragments are the bits of wing-covers 

 of small homopterous insects ; a few beetles and two ants. 



(/)) Mount Lofty, Adelaide, 17th May. 1910. 



A few small fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Nothing definite in beetle remains. 



[c) Hawkesbury River, 3rd Octo]:)er, 1910. 



A large hymenopterous insect. 



(W.W.F.)' Chiefly remains of dung beetles {Onthot>hngns, sp.) : 

 also remains of wasp {Thynnus, flower wasp ?). 

 Glyciphila meianops (M. 756, H. 317). Tawny-crowned Honey- 

 eater. 



