Q4 Cleland, Contents of Stomachs and Crops of Birds. [,„d"oct. 



Stomach crammed full of maroon-coloured fragments of grass- 

 hoppers. 



(W.W.F.) Apparently this bird has been feeding on locusts 

 (grasshoppers) ; hardly any other food. 



Strepera versicolor (M. 878, H. 49). Grey Crow-Shrike. 



Slopes of Mt. Kosciusko. 12th December, iC)io. 



Metallic fragments of a large beetle. 



(W.W.F.) The remains of our golden stag beetle {Lampriina 

 latreUei). It has evidently made its breakfast of these large and 

 very hard-bodied beetles. 



Introduced Birds. 



Passer domesticus. House Sparrow. 



[a] Adelaide, 14th May, 1910. 



Several small white seeds. 



(J.H.M.) This seed seems to be identical with LLraj^^ruslris, 

 found in Sericornis maculata (M. 586), Port Adelaide, but is more 

 digested. 



(&) Adelaide, 14th May, iqio. 



A few fragments of grain, and a number of small pieces of 

 quartz, &c., gravel. 

 Fringilla chloris. Greenfinch. 



Narrabeen, 26th March, 1910. 



Some small seeds of two kinds ; some remains of black seeds. 



Stomach Contents of Birds from Lord Howe Island, 

 October, ioio. 

 (Collected and identified by T. Harvey Johnston. D.Sc.) 

 Ocydromus sylvestris (not in Mathews' List ; in Basset Hull's 

 List, placed after ^lathews' 52). Flightless Rail. 

 {a) (b) Insect remains. 

 Puffinus tenuirostris (M. 84. H. bys)- Short-tailed Petrel (Mutton- 

 Bird). 

 (a) {b) {c) {d) Squid beaks and remains. 

 (e) Oily contents from squid. 

 Sterna fuliginosa (M. 128, H. 650). Sooty Tern. 



Fragments of a small crab. 

 Procelsterna cinerea (M. 132, H. 654). Grey Noddy. 



(a) (b) (c) Stomachs full of " whale food." a small red crustacean 

 somewhat like My sis. 



Anous stolidus (M. 133, H. 655). Noddy. 

 ((() (h) (c) (</) Fish fragments in all. 



Charadrius dominicus (M. 151, H. 608). Lesser Golden Plover. 

 {a) Foraminilera. shells (gastropod), beetle. 



(b) (c) Isopods (a common crustacean along the beach, devouring 

 debris, &c.) in each. 



{d) Gastropods (periwinkles) ; l)eetle remains. 



