THE FOOD OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



Corvus coronoides. (M. 872; H. 44.) Crow. 



{a) Rowona, near Collarenebri, N.S.W., November, 1910. 

 A number of maggots, with remains of dead sheep. 

 (W.W.F.) Maggots of Callipliom rufifacies one of the blow-flics that 

 infest wool; beetles and ants. 



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



Stomach full of comminuted fragments of grasshoppers. 

 (W.W.F.) Tail-bones of a lamb; beetle remains; remains of locusts 

 (grasshoppers). 



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



Stomach crammed full of maroon-coloured fragments oi grasshoppers. 

 (W.W.F.) Apparently this bird has been feeding on locusts (grass- 

 hoppers) ; hardly any other food. 



(d) Pascoe K ; ver, N.Q., 7th August, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Masses of ant remains, a yellow-coloured species with large 

 jaws. 



(e) Pascoe River, N.Q., 8th August, 1913. 

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



(f) Upper Manilla, Septembor, 1913, 



(E.W.F.) Dark mass (?carr:on); larval skins; pupa cases (Lepidoptera) ; 



Hymenoptera, wingless species. 

 (W.W.F.) Cutworms, and a number of moth pupse. 



(g) Moree, N.S.W., October, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Vegetable fragments; fibres apparently of vegetable origin; 

 pieces of twigs ; grass stems; burrs (? clover); larvae (?Lepidoptera). 

 (W.M.C.) Burrs and seeds of Medicago derdiculata (common trefoil). 

 (h) Moree, N.S.W., October, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Stomach rilled with whitish granular masses, with hard 

 chitinous fragments, apparently of a small crustacean. 



(i) Merah North, October, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Large mass of meat, which appears to have been cooked. 

 (j) Mcrah North, October, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Stomach contents few, chiefly an amorphous granular 

 material; a few insect remains (beetles). 



(k) Yanco, 19th December, 1914. 

 (E.W.F.) Wheat and oat grains. 



(1) Walgett, September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Chitinous fragments of legs (? of grasshopper); remains of 



black pupa case. Fibrous material (? grass). 

 (W.W.F.) Elytra of small plant bug; remains of a small moth pupa; 



vegetable matter and remains of an egg. 



(m) Walgett, September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Carrion (? decomposing meat); remains of grasshoppers. 

 (W.W.F.) Grasshoppers. 



(n) Tarcoon, October, 1914. 



(E.W.F. Wheat grains, almost filling stomach ; portion of bones ; larva 

 ( ? Lepidoptera) ; leg of beetle. 



