630 Dr. G. B. Longstaff's Bionomic Notes on Butterjiies. 



21 January, 1908. Bird A appeared to be very anxious 

 to be fed. I gave it a dead Cato2)si/ia 2Jomo7ia, $, 

 which it peckeil to pieces : next a dead Parantica 

 aglea, it ate its abdomen : then a dead Bajjilio aristo- 

 IocMjv, after giving this several pecks it left it and did 

 not touch it again. I then gave it two Crastia ase/a, 

 both alive ; the fact of life seemed to interest the 

 bird and it tried each of the specimens twice but 

 then appeared to be disgusted and refused even to 

 look at any of the following, of which dead indi- 

 viduals were put into its cage : Papilio arjamemnon, 

 Jamides hochus, a small Lycsenid (probably either a 

 Catochrysops or a Nacaduba), Loxura arcuata and 

 Neptis varmona. 



Same day. Gave bird B a dead AtcUa p)1udanta, which 

 it ate ; after this a living Crastia asela, it pecked this 

 several times but did not eat it. 



23 January, 1908. Bird A was busy preening its feathers 

 and appeared to have just been fed ; I could not 

 attract its attention. While thus engaged bird B 

 sought to attract my attention, so I gave it in succes- 

 sion dead specimens of : — Ergo/is sp., Telchinia VIOL'S, 

 Delias evcharis and Papilio aristolochifB. It gave the 

 two first a few pecks ; the Delias it pecked once or 

 twice, but it gave the Papilio a single peck only. 

 Perhaps it was not hungry. 



I then put the last two butterflies into the cage 

 of bird A. It pecked the Delias several times, but 

 the Pap)ilio only once or twice. After this it de- 

 clined even to look at the Papilio any more, but 

 came to the front of its cage repeating again and 

 again what sounded extremely like " No good ! No 

 good ! " 



2 February, 1908. Gave Maina A a dead Nissanga 

 2Mtnia which it appeared to eat. 



4 February, 1908. The Mainas had evidently been fed ; 

 there was food in their cages and bird A had upset 

 its food. 



Gave A an Ergolis sp., which it ate. 

 Gave B a Nissanga p^atnia ; it ate it. 

 Offered a living Hypolininas holina, $, first to one 

 bird, then to the other ; each pecked its wing, but 

 no more. 



Bird A would not look at Cirrhochroa cognata. 



