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Coracina parvirostris. (M. 505; H. 79.) Small-billed Cuckoo Shrike. 

 Flinders Island, Bass Straits, 25th November, 1912. 

 Several large beetles. 



(W.B.G.) Pterohelceus (Tenebrionidce) ; numerous weevil remnants 

 including Gonipterus and various species. 



Coracina mentalis. (M. 507; H. 81.) Little Cuckoo Shrike. 



(a) Eidsvold, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 



Kemains of a large grub ; several small beetles, &c. ; eight black slightly 



curved seeds about J in. long. 

 (W.W.F.) Coleoptera (fam. Chrysomelidce, Cadmus sp., nearly perfect); 



other chrysomelid beetles; weevils; lepidopterous larva. 

 (J.H.M.) Seeds unknown to me. 



(b) Coonabarabran, 29th September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Hemiptera; small weevil (Lcemosaccidce). 



Coracina lineata. (M. 508 ; H. 82.) Barred Cuckoo Shrike. 

 Pascoe Kiver, N.Q., llth July, 1913. 

 Portions of figs. 

 (J.H.M.) Ficus sp. 



Edoliisoma tenuirostre. (M. 509; H. 83.) Jardine's Caterpillar-eater. 

 Queensland. 



Remains of grasshoppers (?) ; some large blackish seeds. 

 (W.W.F.) Orthoptera long-horned grasshopper, probably a form of 



tree-cricket, but no thighs or head to identify. 

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



Lalage tricolor. (M. 510; H. 84.) White-shouldered Caterpillar-eater. 

 Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, 17th October, 1912. 



Insect remains, amongst them a moth; small greyish seed-like bodies 



(microscopically showing vascular bundles). 

 (W.B.G.) Fragment of moth (Noctuidce ?). 

 (J.H.M.) Seeds are Leucopogon sp. 



Cinclosoma punctatum. (M. 515; H. 212.) Spotted Babbling Thrush 



( Ground- thrush) . 

 Sydney, 3rd October, 1910. 



A number of seeds amongst them seeds like wheat ; small yellow seeds, 



small speckled seeds ; a few small pieces of stone. 



(J.H.M.) Seeds of two leguminous plants, probably Trifolium and Medi* 

 cago. 



Cinclosoma castanonotum. (M. 516; H. 213.) Chestnut-backed Babbling 

 Thrush (Ground-thrush). 



(a) South Australia. 



Some oval black seeds, some longer yellow ones, and a grass seed. 

 (E.M.) Geijera (see M. 7; H. 567) some whole, some broken, and the 



cotyledons free, and so appear as yellow seeds. 

 One grass seed -Bromus appears to be B. sterilis, L. 



(b) Alawoona, South Australia, December, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains -Head of fly (Diptera) ; portion of elytra of 

 beetle (Coleoptera). Seeds Minute, light brownish. 



(c) Alawoona, South Australia, December, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains -Ants (Formicidce) ; beetle (Tenebrionidce), 

 Seeds Reddish, oval. 



