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One taken by Brazilian Hangnest, which pecked at it, ate a few- 

 pieces as if testing its flavour, then let it fall from the perch to the 

 ground, and left it there. 



One taken by Saturnine Mocking Bird, which shook it about, 

 pecked it. ate a fragment or two, then left it. 



One taken by Brazilian Hangnest. which pecked it several 

 times, and finally ate it. The Mocking Bird then returned, and 

 after many trials finished oft" the remains of the first specimen 

 that had been left by the Hangnest and of the second that had 

 been left by himself. It was quite evident that neither of these 

 birds found much satisfaction in eating these butterflies. 



One female liberated in aviary, caught on wing by Garrulous 

 Honey-eater, and eaten without delay. 



One female taken by Blue Rock-Thrush, but left on the ground 

 after being pecked. Suspecting that his leaving it was due to inv 

 propinquity, I moved away and told the keeper to throw it to him, 

 He then caught it on the wing, and ate it. He then came close 

 to me on a perch and eagerly took another specimen (male) from 

 my hand, then a third (female), and ate both greedily. 



Two given to Silver Pheasant were taken and eaten, but with a 

 great ileal of pecking and tasting. Comparing this bird's behaviour 

 towards them with his manner of eating Pieris napi and rapce, 1 

 am cpiite sure he found them to a certain extent unpalatable. I 

 thought at tirst that he merely disliked the wings. To test this 

 I gave him immediately afterwards a specimen of napi. He took 

 it from my hand and put it on the ground : then tasted it, and 

 without more ado swallowed it. 1 then ga\e him a specimen of 

 rapce. He took it from me, and without putting it on the ground 

 ate it up. 1 then gave him a specimen of Pera/rge megcera, which 

 flew into a bush. He went after it. found it, caught it with the 

 dexterity of a ' practised hand.' but treated it exactly as he 

 treated the artemis, pecking and whisking it about, ultimately 

 after much delay eating it piecemeal, but with what might be 

 described as a very dubious air. He behaved in a precisely 

 similar manner towards an example of Argynnia euphrosyne. 



1 am convinced that no one who had seen this Pheasant eat 

 these five butterflies, could have doubted for a single moment that 

 he found the ' Whites' pleasant to taste, and the ' Fritillaries ' not 

 altogether to his liking. 



One male offered to Larger Hill Mynah was taken and eaten, 

 but with no great relish, being frequentlj dropped and picked up 

 again, and scraped in the sand. 



One male ottered to Levaillant s Barbet, which took it and be- 

 haved towards it in exactly the same way as the Mynah. The 

 birds appeared to dislike the wings, and to want to get rid of 

 them. 



One male offered to Fantailed Flycatcher, which after a little 

 inspection pecked it and took it, but was robbed by a Syrian 

 Bulbul, which ate it. 



Two males taken and eaten by Shama. 

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