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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS 



side to the cuckoo in fliglit, and on the other to the shrike 

 in bill. The food of the bird is very varied— insects, 

 their larvje, ants, kc. From the stoiTach of one I extracted 



sugar " kind, popularly 



more than 100 ants similar to the 



Fig. 18. Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike— Phases of plumage. 

 One-fifth natural size. 



known as the slingless section ; among them were two 

 large specimens of the Coccinellidfe. In referring to this 

 species that celebrated naturalist, the late Mr. Gould, says : 

 — " When the young, which are generally two in number, 



