SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 15. 



Cracticus destructor. (M. 658; H. 252.) Butcher-bird. 



(a) Eidsvold, Queensland. 



Remains of insects ; several elongated kidney-shaped " seeds," yellowish 



brown to black. 



(W.W.F.) Beetle remains, earwig, and wings of Orthoptera. 

 (E.M.) Not seeds ; eggs of insects. 



(b) Eidsvold, Queensland, 



Portions of grasshoppers and beetles. 



(W.W.F.) Large mantis; chrysomelid beetles (Paropsis sp.); cock- 

 roach ; heteromerous beetles ; other beetle remains. 



(c) Eidsvold, Queensland. 



Remains of grasshoppers ; large brown seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Brown moth (Noctuidce). 



(E.M.) Geijera seeds (see M. 7 ; H. 567), black testa gone, 

 {d) Hawkesbury River, 29th June, 1911. 



Smell of bugs; one large bug and many remains of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Green plant bug (Hemiptera Cuspicona sp.); wings of 



flies ; beetle remains, 

 .(e) Tarcoon, N.S.W., October, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains portion of a grasshopper; legs of beetles; 

 otherwise unrecognisable. 



Fakunculusfrontatus. (M. 660; H. 256.) Yellow-bellied Shrike-tit. 

 Tamworth, 30th October, 1909. 



Many fragments of insects ; metallic elytra of beetles. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of lamellicorn beetles ; remains of chrysomelid 

 beetles. 



-Oreoica cristata. (M. 662 ; H. 258.) Bell-bird. 

 Coonalpyn, South Australia. 



Fragments of insects ; a grain of wheat. 



(W.W.F.) Some grains of wheat; ants (Camponotus sp.); remains of 

 small beetles. 



Kempiella kempi. 



(a) Claudie River, N.Q., 9th October, 1913. 

 (E.W.F.) Fragments of insects; portion of beetle. 



(b) Claudie River, N.Q., 9th October, 1913. 



(E W.F.) -Insect fragments; remains of ants and beetle. 



Pachycephala pectomlis. (M. 667; H. 265.) White-throated Thickhead. 



(a) Hawkesbury River, 13th June, 1909. 



Two larvae of saw-flies; remains of a large grasshopper (?). 

 (W.W.F.) Chiefly saw-fly larvae Perga sp. (three specimens); 

 Pterogophorus sp. 



(b) Hallett's Cove, near Adelaide, May, 1910. 

 Portions of large beetles. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of ants, earwig, and beetles. 



(c) Hawkesbury River, 6th August, 1910. 



(G. P. Darnell-Smith ) Insects ; insect larvae ; one spider. 

 >(d) Hawkesbury River, 6th August, 1910. 



(G. P. Darnell-Smith) Small seeds. 

 i(e) Hawkesbury River, 13th August, 1*)10. 



(G. P. Darnell-Smith) Insects. 



