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and swallowed a Painted Lady [PijrameU cardin) — afterwards 

 refusing the light brown Satyrine Henotesia persplcna. But 

 he accepted, crushed, and swallowed a Papilio lyceus and a 

 skipper, Gegenes hottentota ; again refused the Henotesia 

 without tasting, but accepted and ate a second Gegenes. 



The portion of the experiment just described had been 

 rather spoilt, and the progress of repletion accelerated, by 

 the fact that the bird kept noticing and eating grasshoppers 

 that he had previously overlooked; but he now definitely 

 flew up on to one of the higher perches and remained there. 

 He now accepted with disinclination, crushed, and dropped 

 a Papilio lyceus, did the same on my reoffering it, and the 

 same to a second, quite separate, one that I offered; but 

 readily accepted, crushed, and ate the brown guinea-fowl- 

 spottedNym[)haline/Za»ianMm?6Za dcedalus. Accepted a much- 

 rubbed and battered Neptis agatha, and threw it back into 

 his throat, but shook his head violently from side to side as 

 though to eject it when it was halfway down; but, failing, 

 swallowed it. Again crushed and rejected the second Papilio 

 lyceus, but readily ate a Pyrameis cai'dui, once more treated 

 the lyceus as before, but readily ate a Gegenes hottentota 

 and another Parnara, either detecta or mathias ; crushed 

 and rejected another skipper, Padraona zeno, but accepted 

 and ate a Gegenes; refused to accept another Parnara, and 

 for a time refused a Melanitis leda (great brown Satyrine 

 with leaf-like underside), then accepted, crushed, and ate it. 

 Refused, then crushed and rejected a Salamis parhassus 

 cethiops (a great bottle-green and mother-of-pearl Nympha- 

 line) ; accepted, crushed, and swallowed a Painted Lady and 

 a skipper, Andronynms neander; refused, then again crushed 

 well and rejected the /iSa/a7m'5; refused, then accepted, crushed, 

 and held a Hamanumida dcedalus. This he still continued to 

 hold four or five minutes later, and he refused to relinquish 

 it for either a Painted Lady, a common grasshopper with a 

 round black spot in the centre of each thigh (Catantops 

 mlphureus) , or one of the earth- like grasshoppers so liked 

 by the Drongo ; but, on returning ten or fifteen minutes 

 later, T found it on the ground. Evidently he was really 

 replete. 



