Production of Mimetic EescmUances among ButterfAes. 345 



to catch a wliite butterfly: The Editor, " Countrv- 

 Side," 1903, p. 290. 



19. Regulusregulus, L. (Golden-crested Wren). The Gold- 



crest (Goldhanchen) also captures butterflies which 

 flit about the trees : W. Caspari, " Soc. Ent. Zur ," xvi 

 p. 34. 



20. Troglodytes troglodytes, L. (Wren). This bird was ob- 

 served to persistently enter a house and carry off a 

 considerablenumber of hibernating Vanessa urticae : A. 

 Elliott, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1900, p. 53 (Scotland). 



21. Lanius minor, Gm. (Lesser Grey Shrike), (a) Its 



food " consists of butterflies, various beetles, grass- 

 hoppers and other insects " : Naumann, " Vog. iJeut." 

 ii, p. 20. — {h) A Fapilio podalirius, L. was found in 

 the stomach o£one Lanius minor : E. Csiki, " Aquila " 

 xi, 1904, p. 278. 



22. Lanius auriculatus, Mlill. (Woodchat Shrike). "It 



feeds on beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, dragonflies, 

 and various other insects which it catches on the 

 wing" : Naumann," Vog. Deut.," ii, p. 27. 



23. Lanius collurio, L. (Red-backed Shrike), (a) " It also 



catches with dexterity flying beetles, butterflies, grass- 

 hoppers, and so forth " : Naumann, /. c. p. 35.— (b) 

 "On July 2, 1896, on Patcham Railway Em- 

 bankment, near Brighton, I found a Ficris rapae 

 $ impaled on a sharp sedge by a red-backed shrike. 

 It was pinned neatly through the centre of the 

 thorax and was running round on the pivot thus 

 formed when I investigated it " : W. Parkinson Curtis 

 (letter to Prof. Poulton, dated 22, ix, 1905). 



24. Muscicapa grisola, L. (Spotted Flycatcher), (a) " It 



feeds on flies, especially of the Linnean genera Musca 

 and Conops, on gadflies, gnats, crane-flies, butterflies, 

 small grasshoppers, small dragonflies and various 

 other insects " : Naumann, /. c. ii, p. 220.— (ft)" I have 

 seen the common flycatciier take butterflies more 

 than once. I can well remember how gracefully one 

 swept from the bough of a chestnut and caught a 

 Lasiommata aegeria in its flight " : R. C. R. Jordan, 

 " Ent. Mo. Mag.," xxiv, 1887, p. 86.— (c) " I have seen 

 the common spotted flycatcher pursue a butterfly and 

 miss it, giving up the pursuit (H. S. Wise) " : Lilian 

 Vesey, "Nature," Ixv, 1902, p. 392.— (f/) "I was chasing 

 a Clouded Yellow (Colias edusa, F.) . . . when, much 

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