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(b) Picton, June, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Beetles (Mandalotus sp.), otherwise un- 

 recognisable. 



Acanihiza reguloides. (M. 575; H. 197.) Buff-rumped Tit. 



(a) Locksley, February, 1911. 

 Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Kemains of small grasshopper and beetle remains. 



(b) Dubbo, September, 1911. 

 Fragments of insects ; several scale insects. 

 (W.W.F.) Several parts of Hymenoptera and beetles. 



(c) Picton, N.S.W., June, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Head of ant; fragments of beetle. 



(d) Picton, N.S.W., June, 1914. 



Insect remains Fragments of beetles and ants. 



(e) Sydney, 10th April, 1909. 

 Beetles' cases, &c. 



(f) Bowral, April, 1910. 

 Numerous fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Wings of small moths; heads of ants and small grubs. 



(g) Gosford, 24th May, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Fragments of insects, remains of small weevil, otherwise 

 unrecognisable. 



Sericornis Irunnea. (M. 580; H. 199.) Ked-throat. 

 Queensland. 



Portions of a large insect; several long curved yellow " seeds." 

 (W.W.F.) Larvae of moth; beetle remains. 

 (E.M.)- Not seeds insect eggs and embryos. 



Sericornis larbara. (M. 581 ; H. 200.) Yellow-throated Scrub-Wren. 

 Mt. Irvine, N.S.W., 5th June, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Small round black seeds; small oblongate brownish seeds; 



small, oval, yellowish seeds. 



(J.H.M.) The seeds are those of Phytolacca octandra, L. (Ink Weed); 

 Chenopodium album, L. (Fat-hen); a native legume? ; and a small 

 yellow seed not identified. 



Sericornis flindersi. 



Flinders Island, Bass Straits, 22nd November, 1912. 



Small yellowish and greyish seed-like bodies; fragments of beetle and 



other insects. 

 (W.B.G.) Head of tiger beetle (Cicindelidce) ; head of weevil (Curculion- 



idce] ; numerous small beetle parts. 

 (J.H.M.) The greyish seeds are Leucopogon sp. 



Sericornis frontalis. (M. 582; H. 201.) White-browed Scrub Wren. 

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

 Remains of a spider (?) and grub (?) ; some small white oat-shaped seed* 



and a curved black one. 



(W.W.F.) One spider ; a large lepidopterous larva ; a May fly (Neurop- 

 tera) and wings of another neuropterous insect ; a few remains of 

 Coleoptera. 



(J.H.M.) Panicum marginatum, R.Br. (GravninccB) I am not quite 

 sure about the species, but it is certainly Panicum seed. 



