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

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains fragments of beetles. 

 Seeds (1) Small greyish rounded seeds ; (2) wheat grains. 

 (J.H.M.) Cyperacece. 

 Drymacedus brunneopygius. (M. 521 ; H. 218.) Scrub Kobin. 



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



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Ants (Formicidce) ; beetle (Tenelrionidce). 

 Seeds Minute, reddish. 



(b) Coonalpyn, South Australia. 

 Fragments of a beetle, &c. 



(W.W.F.) -Ants and heteromerous beetles, &c. 



(c) Fragments of insects, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of ants and small beetles. 



(d) Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Fragments of insects ; about a dozen large round seeds. 

 (W.W.F.) Hard black seeds and remains of ants. 

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

 Hylacola cauta. (M. 525 ; H. 222.) Red-rumped Ground Wren. 

 Coonalpyn, South Australia. 

 Fragments of beetles. &c. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of beetles and small leaf-hoppers (Cercopidce). 



PsopJwdes crepitans. (M. 526; H. 223.) Coach-whip Bird. 



(a) Bulli, N.S.W., 17th April, 1909. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of beetles of genus Onthophagus (fam. Scarabceidce] - 

 probably captured by the birds about fresh cow-dung, on which 

 the beetles feed. 



(b) Hawkesbury River, November, 1909. 

 Numerous fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) A. large quantity of the heads and legs of ants, chiefly Ecta- 

 tomma metallicum, " the green-head;" a few dipterous maggots; 

 wings of small ground beetles; small bundles of vegetable fibre, like 

 the tips of some small weed ; other seeds vegetable and animal 

 matter about equal. 



(c) Hawkfisbury River, 20th November, 1909. 

 Numerous fragments of insects ; a few small yellow seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Chiefly vegetable matter, as in (b) ; remains of the same 

 " green-head ant," and one or two beetles. 



(d) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 2nd April, 1910. 

 Remains of beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Several spiders and remains; heads of ants; heads of small 

 plant bug ; bits of legs and wing cases of beetles ; plant tissue similar 

 to that in (b) and (c). 



Pomatostomus frivolus. (M. 529; H. 226.) Babbler. 



(a) Rowena, near Collarenebri, N.S.W., November, 1910. 

 Remains of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of beetle wings. 



(b) Rowena, near Collarenebri, N.S.W., November, 1910. 

 Remains of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of small locust and bits of wing coders of beetles,. 



