THE FOOD OF AUSTRALIAN* BIRDS. Ill 



171. Remains of small insects and fruit flesh. 



172. Remains of fruit flesh the only food present. 



173. Fruit flesh (probably fig). 



174. Number of young black scale, and other fragmentary insect remains. 



175. And fragmentary insect remains. 



176. Flowers, seeds and flesh of fig. 



177. Syrphid flies. 



178. From eucalypts. 



179. From eucalypts. 



180. Large number (150) of a dirty white scale insect. 



181. Weevils amongst others. 



182. Ten larvae. 



183. Green bug and fragmentary insect remains. 



184. Wilga seeds (Geijera parviflora). 



185. Fragmentary remains of different kinds of insects. 



186. Remains very small. Larvae and eggs of small unrecognised insect, possibly scale! 



187. Weevils and scarabs. 



188. A bee fly. 



189. Many fungus gnats ( MycetopMlidce). 



190. Many pollen grains (indicating the haunting of flowers). 



191. Braconids. 



192. Repsimus legs recognisable ; many small insects, but remains very fragmentary. 



193. Included a buprestid. 



194. Remains fragmentary and small. Beetles and flies almost certainly recognisable, 



195. Included bright green flower beetles (Diphucephald) and some insect eggs. 



196. One weevil, one buprestid ; stomach very full. 



197. And five insect eggs. 



198. Shot amongst fig trees in College orchard. 



199. Fragments of spiral vessels and cells, probably fig. Shot in College orchard. 



200. Included a buprestid. Food articles chiefly ants. 



201. A Doratifera larva. 



202. A Psylla, black with white spots. 



203. Braconids apparently ; some hundreds. 



204. Psyllids plentiful. 



205. Contents of stomach examined by Mr. C. Potts, B. A., showed an appreciable quantity 



of glucose sugar present. In four other examples the stomachs were empty, but 

 tests showed glucose sugar to be present. Been feeding on flower nectar. 



206. Wilga and Chenopodium seed, with fragmentary insect remains. 



207. A green bug (Cuspicona type). 



208. A white scale, with fragmentary insect remains. 



209. Elaters, buprestids, and scarabs. 



210. One Paropsis, weevils, and scarabs. 



211. Numerous small oval black unrecognised seeds. 



212. Wireworms. 



213. Weevils and flea beetle. 



214. Cutworm larvae. 



215. Summer grass seed. 



216. Believed to be a male scale insect amongst food. 



217. Fifty seeds of Polygonum aviculare, a few of P. lapathe folium, and fruits of some 



small plant, unrecognised. 



218. Cutworm larvae. 



219. Seeds of a grass and of a Polygonum. 



220. Paspalum seed, and some fragmentary insect remains. 



221. Fig remains, also fruits of camphor laurel and Celtis australis. 



222. Fruits of camphor laurel and Celtis australis. 



223. Camphor laurel fruits. 



224. White cedar berries. 



225. Digging up wheat. Bird suffering from lice and a louse fly (Hippobosca). 



226. Sheep's wool present. (Crows had been observed on a dead sheep.) 



227. A scarab larva. 



228. And other vegetable remains, including seed pod of a cress. 



229. Two birds. Stomach contained bones (mouse ?) and unrecognisable insect remains, 



230. Scarabs ; also hair and bones of mice. 



231. Grass, a seed capsule, and the outer glume of an oat. 



232. Pig (?) hair (black), small bones, unrecognisable vegetable matter. 



233. Maize and wheat fragments, also field peas. Egg shell ; large pieces bone, up to 



inch diameter ; mouse hair. 



