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(e) Eidsvold, Queensland. 

 Small, round, dark-brown seeds. 

 (E.M.) Cyperacece. 

 Phaps chalcoptera. (M. 37; H. 550.) Bronzewing Pigeon. 



(a) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 27th December, 1909. 

 Numerous oval brownish and oval olive-coloured seeds. 



(J.H.M.) Cassia sp. (Leguminosce). The brownish seeds are certainly 

 leguminous and probably Cassia, but they do not agree exactly with, 

 any of the three Port Jackson Cassias. They come nearest to 

 Cassia Icevigata, and may be from that species. 



(b) Murray Flats, near Blanchetown, South Australia, May, 1911. 

 Seeds and a leaf. 



(E.M.) Seeds of Kochia, perhaps K. sedifolia, F.v.M., together with 



pieces of the leaves. 



Geophaps scripta. (M. 42; H. 555.) Partridge Bronze-winged Pigeon. 

 Queensland. 



Oval blackish seeds. 



(E.M.) Geijera. (See M. 7; H. 567.) 



Ocyphaps lophotes. (M. 46; H. 560.) Crested Pigeon, 

 (a, b) Rowena, near Collarenebri, 4th November, 1910. 

 Numerous small seeds of several kinds. : 



(J.H.M.) I recognise none of the small seeds. Some of them legu- 

 minous seeds Trifolium and one seems to be a Vicia. 

 Leucosarcia picata. (M. 47; H. 561.) \Vonga Wonga Pigeon. 



Hawkesbury River, 1st November, 1910. < 



Seven small land snails. Large seeds of several kinds. 

 (C. Hedley, F.L.S.) The snails are Nanina marmorata (Cox). The 

 species frequents decaying leaves, cracks in bark, &c. In, wet 

 weather it might ascend trees, but I should not call it of arboreal 

 habits. ( , 



(J.H.M.) The seeds are: (1) Exocarpus cupressiformis, LabiH. 

 native cherry; (2) Elceocarpus cyaneus, Ait. fruit of "blue-berry" 

 tree; (3) Seeds of a cyperaceous plant; (4) A large quantity of 

 unknown seeds (Rubiucece} ; (5) Two unknown seeds, flat and 

 curiously serrated. 



Lobivanellus lobatus. (M. 147; H. 604.) Spur-winged Plover. 

 Upper Manilla, September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains portions of beetles (Ooleopiera), including, 

 Amorpliorrliinm (Amy derides), and other weevils (Curculionidcp). 

 Larval skin. 



(W.W.F.) Cutworms and wing covers. Eight small beetles. 

 Zonifer tricolor. (M. 149; H. 606.) Black-breasted Plover, 

 (a) Hallett's Cove, near Adelaide, 20th May, 1910. 

 A hymenopterous insect. Portions of a cricket (?). Numerous frag- 

 ments of beetles and other insects. Several small leaves (? salt- 

 bush). Several minute yellow seeds. A minute brown seed, and a 

 small elongated grass-like seed. A little sand. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of common mole cricket, legs and heads, and ants. 

 Chief food, ants. 



