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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 



SCIENCE BULLETIN, gjf July, 1918. 



No. 15. 



THE FOOD OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS 



AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHARACTER OF 

 THE STOMACH AND CROP CONTENTS, 



A SUMMARY OF WORK DONE BY 



J. B. CLELAND, M.D,, Principal Microbiologist, Department of Public Health, 



J. H. MAIDEN, Government Botanist of New South Wales, and Director, 

 Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



W. W. FROGGATT, F.L.S., Government Entomologist. 



E, W. FERGUSON, M.B., Ch.M., Assistant Microbiologist, Department 

 of Public Health. 



C. T. MUSSON, Lecturer in Botany and Entomology, Hawkesbury 

 Agricultural College. 



Workers in the respective branches of Economic Science covered 

 by this series of Science Bulletins will receive such of them as may 

 be of use in their special branches of study upon application to the 

 Under Secretary and Director, Department of Agriculture, Sydney. 



t34091 SYDNEY; WILLIAM APPUEGATE GULLICK, ooVeRNMENT PRINTER. 1913 



