103 SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 15. 



Notes to the Bird Food List. 



Numbers 490, 509, 621, 679, 680 were obtained at Coolabah in Western 

 New South Wales ; Turtur ferrago at Sydney. All the other birds examined 

 were obtained around Eichmond. 



It is to be understood that the indications as to nature of the food refer 

 to such whole insects or portions of insects (or such plant food articles) as 

 to which the family, genus, or other classificatory group name could be 

 positively identified. Where there was any doubt, such is stated. 



The bird numbers given in the preceding table are in accordance with a 

 Hand-list of the Birds of Australia Gregory M. Mathews in supplement 

 to " The Emu," Vol. XII, January, 1913. 



The figures at the left of the following notes correspond with those in the- 

 body of the preceding table. C.T.M. 



1. Millet; also vegetable matter. 



2. Summer grass seed plentiful (Panicum sanguinale), also Solanum nigrum (black potato)* 



3. P. sanguinale, 8. nigrum, and Portulaca oleracea, with other vegetable matter. 



4. Army worm larvae. 



5. Four birds examined. Contents entirely grass and weed seeds. 



G. Seeds of chickweed, fruits of buttercup, with other vegetable matter. 



7. A longhorn. 



8. Clover seeds, and green vegetable matter. 



9. Rutherglen bug (Nysius vinitor), with fragments of other insects. 



10. Twenty-eight grains wheat in crop ; seven in stomach. 



11. Setaria glauca, Panicum sanguinale, and a black seed. 



12. Same as 11, with Polygonum aviculare added. 



13. Two kinds grass seed and two kinds legumes. 



14. Very varied seeds, grass, legumes, and oat. 



15. Casuarina glauca, Euphorbia peplus, Setaria glauca, and another grass ; an amarantus, 



16. Approximately 70 seeds Panicum crus-galli, 100 P. sanguinale, 150 Portulaca oleracea ; 



small gravel. 



17. Approximately 4,000 seeds in crop: summer grass chiefly, also chickweed and a 



trefoil. 



18. Approximately 500 summer grass seeds (P. sanguinale), 2,000 pigface (Portulaca 



oleracea), a few fat hen (Chenopodium). 



19. Five grammes seed, 7,230 summer grass, 4,480 pigface, 8 fat hen. 



20. Grass, wattle, and other legumes. 



21. Dytiscus and scarabs. 



22. A Calosoma. 



23. Scarabs. 



24. Cutworm larvae, and some pink larvse. 



25. Fragments of vegetable matter, and gravel. 



26. Water plants, Nitella chiefly, and gravel. 



27. Water beetles ; a considerable quantity. 



28. Water bugs ; a considerable quantity. 



29. Unio, the fresh- water mussel. 



30. Seeds of Panicum crus-galli (a water grass). 



31. Weevils and scarabs. 



32. Water beetles. 



33. Dragon fly larvae. 



34. Dragon fly larvae. 



35. Fragments of Conferva. 



36. Corbicula (a river bivalve), with fragmentary vegetable matter. 



37. Frogs. 



38. Weevils. 



39. Bones and feathers of birds, evidently all pig: on. 



40. Bones and feathers of four sparrows. 



41. Two mice in crop, three in stomach. 



42. Stomach full of mice. 



43. Five mice in stomach. 



44. Four mice in stomach. 



45. Two mice and a lizard. 



46. Stomach full, measured 2| x If x 1 inch. Contained brown feathers, &c., probably 



sparrow. 



