Vol. XI. "j Clelani), Conlenls of Stomachs and Crofts of Birds. Q^ 



Anellobia chrysoptera (M. 810. H. ;()5). l>nisli Waltle-Piinl. 



Mulcllr Ilaii.oiir, 28th March. Kjio. 



Some fragments of lieetles. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of lieads and elytra of beetles ; the fangs 

 of several spiders. 

 Anthus australis (M. S22. H. jcjo). Ground-Lark. 



(<i) Bathurst, January, Kjio. 



Fragments of beetles ; wings. lS^c., of insects ; a small grass seed. 



(W.W.F.) Ants (Formicidce) ; heteromerous beetle ; ladybird 

 beetle [Coccinella) ; small carab l^eetle ; more ants than beetles. 



(b) Summit of Mt. Kosciusko, loth December, 1910. 



Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of ground-hunting spiders, with a few 

 wing-cases of beetles. 



ffigintha temporalis (M. 838, H. 412). Red-browed Finch. 



{a) Narrabeen, 2()th March, igio. 



Small oval white seeds. 



(b) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 9th April, 1910. 



Fragments of small white seeds. 



(f) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 9th xApril, igio. 



Fragments of small white seeds. 



{d) and {e) Berry, loth August, 1910. 



A number of small whitish seeds and minute orange or brown 

 seeds. 



(J.H.M.) Three small kinds of seeds, probably all grasses. The 

 narrow seed is i^robably an Eragrostis, but 1 cannot give the genus 

 of the other two. 



(/) and is) Berry, loth August, 1910. 



A number of small seeds as in (d) and (e). 



(J.H.M.) The same three seeds as in (a) and (b). In addition, 

 another small flat seed, which is not a grass, and belongs to the 

 Dicotyledoneae. 



Oriolus Sagittarius (M. 850, H. 62). Oriole. 

 Berry, loth August, 1910. 



A seed like a small date seed ; portions of large grub. 

 (W.W.F.) Looper caterpillar (fam. Geometerida;). 

 (J.H.M.) Stone of the white cedar (Melia azcdcrach, L.) 



Corvus coronoides (M. 872, H. 44). Crow. 



(d) Rowena, near CoUarenabri, N.S.W., November, 1910. 



A number of maggots, with remains of dead sheep. 



(W.W.F.) Maggots of Calliphora rufifacies, one of the blow- 

 flies that infest wool ; beetles and ants. 



{b) Jindabyne, N.S.W., 12th December. 1910. 



Stomach full of comminuted fragments of grasshoppers. 



(W.W.F.) Tail bones of a lamli : beetle remains ; remains of 

 locusts (grasshoppers). 



Corone australis (M. 874, H. 45). Raven. 

 Jindabyne, N.S.W., I2th December, 1910. 



