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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. | 
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Flowering heads of a scabious. 
Numerous fronds of a fern (t Polypodiwm alpestre), 
Tormentilla (7’. officinalis), and two or three Trifolium 
leaves. 
“Vast number ” of spangle galls. 
300 or more dark-brown beetles (LZ. swtwralis). 
One earwig, and 
One large (14 in. long) smooth-skinned green caterpillar. 
5. 2 Shot 18th October, 1907 (3 p.m.) ; crop half full. 
Mainly heather shoots, with a good sprinkling of 
blaeberry (V. myrtilus). 
Fern fronds (P. alpestre), a few. 
“Tmmense number” of the usual small dark-brown beetle, 
and quantity of “spangle galls.” 
“The two outstanding features are the spangle galls and 
the small beetle. Almost all the birds were crowded with 
these, and, judging by my specimens, the blackgame must 
have been destroying enormous numbers of both. I don’t 
think, as regards the beetles, it is any exaggeration to allow 
300 beetles per day per bird. Ours is not a very good black- 
game ground now, and perhaps we have 300 head in all; that 
would equal 90,000 beetles per day! I was surprised to find, 
too, how little heather was eaten in most cases, despite the 
fact that the birds were in almost every case found on the 
moor and not in the woods. 
“The beetles were kindly identified for me by Commander 
Walker, and the oak spangles by the authorities at Kew.” 
Professor Povutton said that Dr. Menteith Ogilvie had 
kindly obtained specimens of the abundant hairy larve un- 
