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A few minutes later — a little hun'grier again, no doubt — lie 

 ate the D. elirysippus, and refused, then crushed and rejected 

 in turn, another Danaida and the A. dominicanus. But he 

 readily accepted, crushed, and ate an Amauris lohengula. 



A few minutes later again he accepted and ate the Danaida ; 

 refused, then crushed and rejected the A. dominicanus; took 

 with disinclination, but, having done so, crushed and ate 

 another Danaida; once more refused, then accepted^ crushed* 

 and threw away the A, dominicanus ; but readily accepted, 

 crushed, and swallowed an Acrcea areca ? , and refused per- 

 sistently to touch a Cape gooseberry. 



Shortly afterwards he once more refused the fruit, ate two 

 pieces of meat with disinclination, took with disinclination a 

 third and threw it away, refused the next piece, readily ate 

 several grasshoppers; refused for a time, but on my con- 

 tinuing to offer it took, crushed, and threw away the i'. 

 dominicanus', refused an A. alhimacidata, then crushed and 

 threw it away, but, changing his mind, picked it up again and 

 swallowed it. Showed some actual eagerness for a Mylotliris 

 agatldna ? , which, however, I withheld; and went on to pick 

 up from the ground and eat a number of grasshoppers, which 

 I now inserted to carry him to Mylothris-VQiw^mg point. 



He next refused persistently to touch either a ? M. agathina 

 or a Mylotliris rueppelli. I even placed them on the ground 

 in front of him, and they began to move about freely, one 

 going so far as to climb up his leg, but, though he looked at 

 them more than once, he made no attempt to seize them. 

 Nevertheless, he accepted, crushed, and swallowed a Belenois 

 severina, showing that he preferred it to Mylotliris. A 2'erias 

 was now persistently refused, even when allowed to move 

 about with the two Mylotliris (movement often tempts attack), 

 and so for a time was an Ypthima near impura, but the bird 

 ended by crushing and rejecting the latter. 



He then crushed and rejected the black-and-white day- 

 flying moth with tomato-leaf smell, Nyctemera leuconoe ; 

 refused for a few seconds a brown skipper, Farnara detecta, 

 perhaps reminded of Ypthima, but on accepting and crushing 

 it ate it without further hesitation and eagerly seized, crushed, 



