No. of Copies issued. 2,000. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 



SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 15. 



HE 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. 

 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, Hawkesbnry Agricultural College. 



SYDNEY : WILLIAM APPLEGATE GULUCK, GOVERNMENT PRINTER. 



1918. 

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