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-(s) Uralla, May- June, 1915. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of spiders generally; two small weevils (Curcu- 

 lionidce)', elytra of other small beetles; remains of ants. A small 

 seed, 

 (t) Uralla, May-June, 1915. 



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



NOTE. The Soldier Bird is very common in the Uralla District, and usually 

 feeds among the leaves- and bark of the Eucalypts. It also does considerable 

 damage to fruit in the small orchard at Salisbury Court, and often came into 

 the tent and fed upon pieces of bread, meat, &c., which were thrown it. 

 Blow-fly Investigations Camp, Uralla. 



Myzantlia ftavigula. (M. 806; H. 361.) Yellow-throated Minah. 



(a) Moree, 5th October, 1909. 



Fragments of beetles and other insects ; remains of grubs ; several small 



yellowish kidney-shaped seeds. 

 (W.W.F.) (1) Crane fly (Tipulidcc-DlpteTa,); (2) Remains of cutworms 



(Acjrotis sp.) ; (3) Beetles (Heteromera). 



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



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Fragmentary; portions of beetles, otherwise 

 unrecognisable. , 



<c) Belaringar, N.S.W., 14th April, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Hymenoptera Small bee ; small ants ; 

 numerous specimens of a small wasp. Diptera Bombylidce, one 

 specimen; Muscidce, several specimens of a metallic green fly. 

 Coleoptera One small beetle (Chrysomelidce). Numerous small round 

 reddish seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Hymenoptera -Thirty specimens of a yellow ichneumon 

 (Bmconidce) ; forty ants, Iridomyrmex (Formicidce) ; one bee, 

 Diptera one Bombylid fly; eight muscid flies. Homoptera 

 one psyllid larva. Coleoptera one beetle, Cadmus (Chrysomelidce). 

 Broken fragments of insects, vegetable matter, and about fifty- 

 eight small round seeds. 



td) Belaringar, N.S.W., 15th May, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Numerous ants, apparently all of one species, and including 



winged forms. 

 (W.W.F.) Almost all remains of ants, Pheidole sp., including winged 



forms; elytra of small beetle (Curculionidce). Several small seeds. 



Anthochcera carunculata. (M. 808; H. 363.) Red-wattle Bird. 

 Jindabyne, N.S.W., 12th December, 1910. 



Stomach full of metallic fragments of a beetle. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of Coleoptera, apparently wing cases of small 

 metallic lamellicorn on wattle trees (Diphucephala sp.). 



Ancllobia chrysoptera. (M. 810; H. 365.) Brush Wattle Bird. 

 Middle Harbour, 8th March, 1910. 

 Somo fragments of beetles. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of heads and elytra of beetles ; the fangs of several 

 spiders. 



