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(E.M.) Grass, Setaria glauca ; small — 8 seeds of Cyperacece with 

 triangular cross-section. 

 Acanthiza pusilla (M. 561, H. 190). Brown Tit. 



Middle Harbour, Sydney, 15th April, igii. 



Fragments of insects ; small white eggs of insect. 



(W.W.F.) Beetle remains and some bits of wings of lace-wings. 



Acanthiza pyrrhopygia (M. 568, H. 193). Red-rumped Tit. 



[a) Coonalpyn, South Australia. 



Fragments of small beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Termites' (white ants') wings ; remains of small 

 beetles. 



{h) Coonalpyn, South Australia. 



Fragments of small beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of small beetles, but nothing definite. 



Acanthiza uropygialis (M. 573, H. 195). Chestnut-rumped Tit. 



Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Two small, brown, disc-shaped seeds. 



(E.M.) Salt-bush, but species not identifiable — seed only 

 present, without membranes. &c. (N.O. Cheiwpodiacrce.) 



Fragments of insects. 



(W.Xv.F.) Chiefly dipterous remains. 



Sericornis brunnea (M. 580, H. 199). Redthroat. 

 Queensland. 



Portions of a large insect ; several long, curved yellow " seeds." 

 (W.W.F.) Larv'as of moth ; beetle remains. 

 (E.M.) Not seeds — insect eggs and embryos. 



Stipiturus malachurus (M. 610, H. 174). Emu-Wren. 



(a) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 15th April, 1911. 



Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Small Homoptera and a few beetle remains. 



(h) Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Insect remains too indefinite to determine, but 

 probably beetles and some Homoptera. 



Grallina picata (M. 646, H. 67). Magpie-Lark. 



Queensland. 



Three kinds of seeds — (i) narrow black, (2) rounded black, 

 (3) oval yellow ; portion of a grasshopper and other insects. 



(E.M.) (i) Insect egg-cases, (2) a legume, (3) grass {Setaria — 

 probably S. glauca), 3 mm. long. 



(W.W.F.) Weevils and other beetles ; a long-horned grass- 

 hopper. 



Cracticus destructor (M. 658, H. 252). Butcher-Bird. 



(a) Eidsvold, Queensland. 



Remains of insects ; several elongated kidney-shaped " seeds," 

 yellowish-brown to black. 



(W.W.F.) Beetle remains, earwig, and wings of Orthoptera. 



(E.M.) Not seeds — eggs of insects. 



