THE FOOD OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 9$ 



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



Same contents as in (b), with the addition of a few minute comminuted 



fragments of insects. 

 (J.H.M.) The same Panicum and Setaria seeds as in (a) and (b), and 



some small seeds I cannot identify. 



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



Small smooth oval yellow seeds ; smaller ribbed oval yellow seeds ; some 

 small pieces of red gravel; a few minute comminuted fragment* 

 of insects. 



(J.H.M.) Panicum and Setaria seeds. 



(e) Gunnedah, N.S.W. 



A number of minute round black seeds, several larger oval yellow ones, 

 and one kidney-shaped brown one ; some vegetable fragments and 

 a few fragments of insects (?) ; grains of red sand. 



(J.H.M.) The oval yellow seeds are. Melilotus,. probably M. parviflora, 

 Desf . (Hexham Scent) ; the numerous small dark seeds are probably 

 a Chenopodium, or at least belong to the Chenopodiacea ?. 



(f) Gunnedah, N.S.W. 



A number of slightly elongated wheat grains; vegetable fragments; 

 one small heart-shaped seed, and several small cylindrical reddish 

 orange ones; a few minute yellow seeds, and a few black ones; 

 grains of red sand. 



(J.H.M.) Common wheat grains; numerous grass seeds of a specie* 

 of Panicum, and the same dark seeds of a (?) Chenopodium found 

 in (e). I do not recognise the reddish cylindrical seeds. 



(g) Gunnedah, N.S.W. 



The same contents as in (f), with the addition of a number of orange- 



coloured seeds. 

 (J.H.M.) The wheat and Panicum seeds as in (f), and the same dark 



doubtful Chenopodium seeds. 



" (h) Gunnedah, N.S.W., September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Numerous fragments of insects, unrecognisable Seeds 



(1) moderately large ovate yellow; (2) small brownish, oval, pointed 



at each end. 

 (W.M.C.) (1) Cucumus myriocarpus (Wild Melon); (2) Scirpus sp.; 



(3) Setaria viridis (Pigeon Grass). 



(i) Gunnedah, N.S.W., September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains : Fragments of beetles, otherwise unrecog- 

 nisable. Seeds moderately large, oblongate, brownish. 

 (W.M.C.) (1) Not determined; (2) Rumex sp. (Doch.). 



(j) Gunnedah, N.S.W., September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Mostly shell grit and unrecognisable fragments of insects. 



(k) Coonabarabran, 29th September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) A few fragments of insects. Seeds (1) medium size, narrow, 

 elongate ; (2) small, narrow, elliptical ; (3) small, red, with three 

 ridges. 



<1) Belaringar, N.S.W., 14th April, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Seeds (1) wheat grains; (2) elongate brownish seeds; 

 (3) minute round black seeds. 



