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Eopsaltria australis. (M. 683; H. 252.) Yellow-breasted Shrike Robin. 



(a) Sydney, 8th May, 1909. 



An ant ; a small beetle ; some fragments of insects ; fifteen oval reddish 



seeds, a little smaller than wheat seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Chief food, green-head ants (Ectatomma metallicum). 

 (J.H.M.) The seeds are those of a Leucopogon, probably; they are 



certainly from an epacridaceous plant. 



(b) Sydney. 



(W.W.F.) Chiefly the remains of the green-head ant (Ectatomma 

 metallicum). 



(c) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 1st August, 1910. 



Bui) -dog ant ; remains of small beetle ; numerous other insect remains. 



(W.W.F.) Chief food, ants of various species; bull-dog ant (Myrmecia 

 gulosa) ; wood ant (Polyrhachis sp.) ; green-head ant (Ectatomma 

 metallicum) ; moth caterpillar and wing cover of beetle. 



(d) Hawkesbury Eiver. 

 Beetles and other insects. 



(W.W.F.) Yellow cicada (Homoptera); chrysomelid beetle (metallic 

 Calomela). 



(e) Molong, N.S.W: 



Insect remains: Unrecognisable. 



Eopsaltria chrysorrhoa. (M. 684; H. 259.) Yellow-breasted Robin. 

 Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles ; one rounded rough brown seed. 

 (W.W.F.) Chiefly spiders; a few beetle remains. 

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



Aphelocephala leucopsis. (M. 689; H. 239.) White-faced Titmouse. 



(a) Hallett's Cove, near Adelaide, 20th May, 1910. 



Numerous fragments of beetles, &c. ; portion of a seed and some chloro- 

 phyll- containing vegetable fragments ; a little sand. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of wing covers and legs of beetles. 



(b) Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Fragments of seeds, amongst them some elongated orange ones and some 



fragments like wheat. 

 (E.M.) All grains of wheat in various stages of digestion and 



preservation. 



(c) Murray Flats. 



Fragments of seeds, amongst them one grain of wheat and about a dozen 



orange-coloured seeds. 

 (E.M.) All wheat grains. 



(d) Mannum, South Australia, 26th November, 1913. 

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains : Unrecognisable. 



(e) Gular, 30th October, 1.911. 



Some fragments of insects; a number of minute reddish-brown seedt; 



a few minute black ones. 

 (W.W.F.) Undeterminable fragments of insects, c. 



(f) Gular, 30th October, 1911. 



Fragments of insects; several elongated orange seeds, and some minute 



brownish ones. 

 (W.W.F.) Several pupae of flies (Drosophilidce) and some unrecognisable 



insect parts, &c. 



