SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 15. 



APPENDIX II. 



Tabulated Examination of the Contents of Stomachs and Crops of 

 the individual Australian Birds, &e., examined. 



Catheturus latkami. (M. 7; H. 567.) Yellow -wattled Brush Turkey. 

 Queensland. 



Full of seeds round black ones, grass seeds, &c. 



(E.M.) Geijera. These may be Xanthoxylum (spp., e.g., thorny yellow 

 wood), but the size and shape of the embryos seem to be Geijera. 

 As these seeds appear in no less than fifteen of the specimens from 

 the Murray to Queensland, I think they are probably Geijera spp. 

 Grass seed only free internal grain; no glumes; cannot identify 

 species or genus. 



Turnix maculosa. (M. 15; H. 569.) Ked-backed (Black-backed) Quail. 



(a) Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 29th September, 1913. 



Seeds small ovate black seeds; small kidney-shaped yellow seeds; one 

 or two oblongate brownish seeds ; one ovate small three-sided seed. 



(J.H.M.) Swainsona sp.; Legume (Vicia) ; Polygonum aviculare, L.; 

 Rumex sp. 



(b) Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 7th October, 1913. 

 Minute cordate seeds, dotted in rows. 



(c) Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 26th October, 1913. 



Seeds small oblongate brownish seeds; smaller, flattened kidney- 

 shaped yellow seeds ; one small round seed ; two small black, strigose 

 seeds. 



Fragments of insects, unrecognisable. 

 (J.H.M.) Legume (Viola)', Polygonum sp. 

 Geopelia humeralis. (M. 33 ; H. 546.) Barred-shoulder Dove. 

 Gular, 30th October, 1911. 



Many hundred flat greyish-brown seeds. 



Geopelia placida. (M. 34; H. 547.) Peaceful Dove. 



(a) Gular, 30th October, 1911. 



A number of small oval brownish seeds. Several larger flat white ones. 

 (J.H.M.) Panicum sp. (Graminea). In addition there are also large 

 flat seeds unknown to me. 



(b) Sydney, 4th November, 1911. 



Stomach contains a few small seeds. Crop contains numerous wheat 

 grains and a little bread (bird had been feeding with domestic 

 pigeons). 



(c) Mannum, Murray Kiver, South Australia, 26th November, 1913. 

 Seeds (1) Small, ovate, greyish brown; (2) small, ovate, yellowish; 



(3) small, ovate, blat'k; (4) small, round, rugulose, black; (5) 

 larger, triangular, black; (6) small, ovate, yellow. 



(J.H.M.) (1) Urtica incisa, Poir. ; (4) Stellaria media, Vill.; (5) 

 Polygonum aviculare, L. 



(d) Mannum, South Australia, 26th November, 1913. 



Seeds (1) Kounded, black, nitid; (2) small, rounded, rugose, some red, 



some black ; (3) oval, greyish. 

 (J.H.M.) (1) Phytolacca octandra, L. ; (2) Chenopodium sp.; (2a) 



Stellaria media, Vill. ; (3) Urtica incisa* Poir. 



