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A later communication from Dr. Menteith Ogilvie contained 
the following interesting details :—‘I enclose a rough note on 
the contents of the crops of five blackgame. I could send 
others, but the general result was the same in all the birds shot.” 
Blackgame, Tetrao tetrix, L. Contents of crop (5 specimens). 
Barcaldine, Argyllshire. 
1. 9 Shot 17th October, 1907 (3 p.m.); crop fairly dis- 
tended. ‘An immense number” of galls from oak 
trees, vulgarly “‘spangle galls” (Newroterus lenticu- 
laris), probably not less than 500 of these. 
Also ‘‘ an immense number ” of small dark-brown beetles, 
Lochmexa (Adimonia) suturalis of Thomson, one of the 
plant-feeding section of the Coleoptera. 
A quantity of plantain leaves, others that appeared to 
belong to some kind of mint, and only one small 
flowering head of heather. 
2. 3 Shot 19th October, 1907 (4 p.m.) ; crop full. 
Plantain leaves, fully 4 of the contents. 
Heather shoots, about another }. 
A few blaeberry tops (Vaccinium myrtillus). 
Marsh Trifolium (2 or 3 leaves); a fern leaf (? Poly- 
podium alpestre). 
Many dark-brown beetles, as in @ of 17th October, 1907, 
but less numerous. 
One large smooth-skinned caterpillar, 1} in. long, 3 
longitudinal yellow stripes on a dark olive-brown 
ground. 
3. gd young. Shot 19th October, 1907 (10 a.m.) ; crop nearly 
empty. 
Seven berries of the mountain ash (Rowan), and 
A few crinkly leaves, somewhat like parsley. (Sp. ?) 
4. ¢ adult. Shot 18th October, 1907 (4 p.m.); crop very 
distended. 
Large quantities of heather shoots. 
Willow leaves. (Sp. ?) 
[This is a dwarf willow which grows plentifully on 
the moors. I don’t know the species—it is locally 
known as the “saugh”’ willow. | 
