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Salangana (Callocalia}francica. (M. 401 ; H. 432.) Grey Crumped Swiftlet. 

 Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 20th September, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Numerous insect remains Coleoptera small beetles; one 

 Buprestid (Cisseis sp.); Hymenoptera small bees; Orthoptera 

 small crickets. 



Cuculus inornatus. (M. 405 ; H. 456.) Pallid Cuckoo. 

 Upper Manilla, September, 1914. 



Caterpillars ; portions of cockroach ; elytra of beetle. 

 (W.W.F.) Mass of slender cutworm caterpillars. 



Cacomantis flabelliformis. (M. 407 ; H. 457.) Fan-tailed Cuckoo. 



(a) Flinders Island, Bass Straits, 22nd November, 1912. 

 Several very large grubs. 



(W.B.G.) Four or five larvae of lamellicorn beetles (White Grubs). 



(b) Flinders Island, 25th November, 1912. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Small Hymenoptera, otherwise unrecog- 

 nisable. 



(c) Ourimbah, N.S.W., 18th November, 1911. 

 Kemains of hairy caterpillars (?) ; many hairs, barbed. 

 (W.W.F.) Kemnants of about six hairy caterpillars. 



(d) Berry, 10th August, 1910. 



Portion of a large grub; remains of many insects. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of larvae of saw fly (Philomastix, Glaber) ; specimens 

 of two species of plant bugs (Dindimus versicolor and Lygceus sp.) 

 and small moth caterpillar. 



Chakococcyxbasalis. (M. 410; H. 461.) Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoo. 

 Overland Corner, Murray River, South Australia, 2nd December, 1913. 

 (E.W.F.) -Numerous insect remains : Coleoptera Ditropidius sp. 

 (Chrysomelidce) ; elytra of ladybird, Coccinella transversalis (Coc- 

 cinellidce) ; remains of other beetles, including head of weevil. 

 Hemiptera Two bugs (Pentatomidce) ; heads of other hemiptera. 

 Orthoptera Remains of grasshopper ; portion of earwig. Hymen- 

 optera Heads of ants. 

 Chakococcyx plagosus. (M. 412; H. 462.) Bronze Cuckoo. 



(a) Perth, September, 1909. 



Stomach lined by black hairs, mostly parallel to each other microscopi- 

 cally these have thorn-like processes projecting from the sides 

 ( ? hairs of caterpillar) ; rest of contents black and granular (fragments 

 of hairs) ; three portions of a large insect ( ? caterpillar) ; a small 

 piece of white quartz ; microscopically an oval egg and a number of 

 curved brownish bodies of regular shape. 



(W.W.F.) These are chiefly the remains of " Woolly Bear " caterpillars, 

 as the heads are also on the bundles of hairs and skin -the cater- 

 pillars are probably the larvae of a Darala. 



(b) Queensland. 



Full apparently of remains of hairy caterpillars. 



(W.W.F.) Lepidopterous larva (Geometridce) ; Brown Looper cater- 

 pillar. 



Chalcococcyx russata. 



Claudie River, N.Q., 13th October, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Stomach contents Macerated heads and bodies of larvae, 

 ? sawfly larvae. 



