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513. March 12. — Two Wood-Hoopoes were brought me 

 two days ago by a native who had taken them roosting 

 together in a hole in a tree. Both have the red bill, D the 

 long bill of a male, E the short bill of a female. 



Each to-day persistently refused a Precis natalends, the 

 red wet-season form resembling Acram acara, with wings, 

 presumably suspecting it of being an Acro'a, but each tasted 

 and readily ate one without wings. Yet each accepted and 

 diswinged a Papilio demodocus. D ate his, E finally held 

 hers over to D, who broke off and ate the thorax, E then 

 eating the abdomen. 



514. March 14. — D ate readily four Papilio Jyams in 

 succession. The third was dro]>ped through disinclination, 

 but eaten a few minutes later. The fourth was accidentally 

 drojiped, and the bird at once descended, picked it up, and 

 ate it. 



515. March 16. — D ate readily three Papilio lya'ns, gave 

 a fourth to E, who was craning over for it with open mouth, 

 and ate the next three himself. E ate the eighth, then 

 descended and ate some heads and scraps of thorax that had 

 been dropped by D. All the insects were wingless. The 

 birds had fed well just before the experiment, so it is likely 

 that this Papilio (large, black, with a green-blue diagonal 

 stripe) ranks fairly high in their estimation. 



516. March 2<6. — In each case one wing was left attached 

 to the butterfly to facilitate the birds' recognition of it. D 

 ate two Catop)silia Jlorella, threw down a third, evidently 

 difiinclined for more of it, but ate it when reoffered, and 

 dropped a fourth and fifth. E readily ate them. D ate a 

 P. lyanis, but refused the next (eaten readily by Coracias 

 garrulus). A little later D ate three white C.jiorella, but 

 accepted a yellow female with a good deal of suspicion, 

 probably reminded of the, to most birds, far more unaccept- 

 able Pierine, Terias senegalevsis. He had barely, after much 

 trouble, removed the wing when E took the butterfly from 

 him and ate it. D took, but at once threw down, a second 

 yellow f'.male. E picketl it up and ate it after much trouble 

 in removino; the winci. 



