;60 M-. O. A. K. Marshall on 



1887. 



Rawul Pindi and home, via Japan 

 America. None. 



1888-9. 



At home. 



1890. 



June. Ceylon, Trinkomali. No record. 



1891. 



Nov. 14. On the Kandy Road between Trinkomali and 

 Kanthalai ; butterflies in great numbers 

 sitting on the wet mud by the roadside ; 

 chiefly PicriniG (Catojihr/ga), but a few F. 

 nomius with them. These butterflies rose 

 in clouds as one drove past. A bee-eater, 

 Mcroi)S 'jthilippinns, kept flying in front of 

 my carriage and taking specimens of these 

 butterflies as they rose. The bird seemed 

 to select the yellow females, which are 

 rare, the white females being to them 

 pi'obably in the proportion of 100 to 1. 

 These flocks of butterflies often unite and 

 form what are known as snowstorms in 

 Ceylon ; they then migrate right across 

 the island, 

 " These bee-eaters were often seen catching Picrinse ; in 

 fact, it seems to have occurred so often that I ceased to 

 record the fact, for I can only find this one reference. 

 Probably the attacks were always witnessed at the begin- 

 ning of the N.E. monsoons during the time of the heavy 

 rains, i. c. September to December. 



" I am not certain as to the date on which I saw the 

 Ashy swallow-shrike (Artamus fuscus) catching speci- 

 mens of the Euploea Crastia core. The fact is associated 

 in my mind with a particular place, and with the capture 

 of CharcLvcs 'psaplion $ there. This is recorded for April 

 12th, 1891, so this may be the correct date on which I 

 watched the bird. At least six specimens of the Crastia 

 were captured by the shrike, all of which it carried away 

 to a branch high up in a big tree, but I could not see 

 whether they were eaten. 



" As regards my experience of birds catching butterflies, 

 it appears to have occurred more frequently in damp than 

 in dry districts ; e. g. it was frequent in Ceylon, rare in 



