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Dic&um hirundinaceum. (M. 722; H. 375.) Mistletoe Bird. 

 Hawkesbury River, 23rd March, 1912. 



Fragments of insects in stomach; mistletoe fruit (Loranthus sp.) in 



lower intestine. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of five small spiders. 



Pardalotus ornatus. (M. 723; H. 376.) Strated Pardalote. 



(a) Near Morgan, Murray River, South Australia, 29th November, 1913. 

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains, &c. : Mainly unrecognisable, heads of ants 



(IE. metallicum). 



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

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains : Portion of beetle. 



Pardalotus affinis. (M. 725; H. 378.) Yellow-tipped Pardalote. 

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



(E.W.F.) Insect remains : Beetle elytra, including Paroprit sp. 

 (ChrysomelidcB). 



Pardalotus sp. (affinis or punctatus). 



Flinders Island, Bass Straits, 27th November, 1912. 



Fall of fragments of insects, including metallic elytra of beetles. 

 (W.B.G.) FulgoridcB (one specimen) ; various fragments of small beetlei. 



Pardalotus punctatus. (M. 726; H. 379.) Spotted Pardalote. 

 (a) Gular, 30th October, 1911. 

 Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) One moth ; many non-determinable fragments of insects. 

 <b) Hawkesbury River, 23rd March, 1912. 

 Metallic fragments of beetles, &c. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of Coleoptera, and wing of braconid wasp. 



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

 Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of small plant bugs (Homoptera) ; a few beetle legs 

 and wings. 



(d) Hawkesbury River, N.S.W., llth June, 1909. 

 Fragments of small beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) One thrips ; beetle remains ; floating scales may be those of 

 aphis. 



(e) Hawkesbury River, N.S.W., llth June, 1909. 

 Small fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) "[Indefinable; oil and scales suggest that the bird had been 

 feeding upon cutworm moths (Agrotis sp.) or aphis. 



(f) Jindabyne, N.S.W., 12th December, 1910. 

 Minutely comminuted fragments of a metallic beetle. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of wing covers of Coleoptera. 



(g) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles, lerp-scales (?). 



(W.W.F.) Remains of small chrysomelid beetles (chiefly). 



Pardalotus xanthopygius, McCoy. (M. 727; H. 380.) Yellow-rumped 



Pardalote. 

 Mannum, South Australia, 26th November, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains : Mostly unrecognisable, remains of beetles, j 



