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Stomachs examined contd. 



2 Lygasut sp. 

 Ficut fruit. 



8-2-07. Ficus fruit. 



20-2-07. 2 Dysdercut cingulatut. 



Ficus fruit. 

 13-3-07. 2 Weevil*. 



1 Dysdercus cingulatus. 



1 Nezara viridula ? 



2 Hemipterous scutella. 

 20-3-07. 3 Myllocerus sp. 



Ficus fruit. 

 11-4-09. 1 Camponotus compreasus. 



3 Myllocerus discolor. 

 Ficus fruit. 



15-4-07. 3 Dysdercus cingulatus. 



2 Geometric! ? larvae. 

 20-5-07. 4 Larvae. (Ocinara varians ?) 



Ficus fruit. 



16-5-08. 1 Large weevil. 



-- 4 Myllocerus sp. 



1 Hemipteroua scutellum. 

 Ficus fruit. 



13-8-08. 8 Dysdercus cingulatus. 



2 Spiders. 



Ficus buds and fruits. 

 7-9-08. 4 Myllocerus maculosus. 



1 Hemipterous scutellum. 



Ficus fruit and two buds. 

 12-10-07. Acw* fruit. 



Summary. Of 52 insects taken by 13 birds, 1 is beneficial, 

 40 injurious and 11 neutral. 11 birds took insects, 2 having eaten 

 insects only. 1 took spiders. The vegetable food consists only of 

 Ficus fruit, and this forms the greater bulk of the food taken. Two 

 birds had eaten this fruit only. 



This bird is a migrant though a few remain during the cold wea- 

 ther. It is very common during the hot weather and the rains. 

 It feeds principally on Ficus fruits, but also largely on caterpillars 

 and bugs (Hemiptera) amongst which, Dysdercus cingulatus the 

 Red Cotton Bug frequently occurs ; this insect is taken off trees, 

 seldom if ever off the cotton plant. This Oriole occasionally comes 

 to the ground to feed, and while there has been seen to take the 

 following insects, From a grassy " band " which it fed to its young, 

 a grub of Anomala varians (sp. ?) a fairly large Carabid on a 



