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Aphelocephala leucopsis (M. 689, H. 239). Whitcface. 



[a) Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Fragments of seeds, amongst them some elongated orange 

 ones and some fragments like wheat. 



(E.M.) All grains of wheat, in various stages of digestion and 

 preservation. 



{b) Murray Flats. 



Fragments of seeds, amongst them one grain of wheat and about 

 a dozen orange-coloured seeds. 



(E.M.) All wheat grains. 



Neositta pileata (M. 697, H. 289). Black-ca}:)ped Tree-runner. 



{a) Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Small beetles, a grub, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Small leaf -hoppers {Ccrcopida.) ; Homoptera : a few 

 beetle remains, among them one click beetle, mostly taken under 

 bark. 



{h) Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Small beetles, grub, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Click beetle, ants, froghopj)er (Fiilgondcc). small 

 heteromerous beetle— all probably taken on tree-trunk. 



Climacteris picumna (M. 704, H. 281). White-throated Tree- 

 creeper. 

 Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Fragments of insects ; some minute vegetable fragments. 

 (W.W.F.) Nearly all remains of ants ; a few beetle remains. 



Zosterops coerulescens (M. 712, H. 301). White-eye. 



(a) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles ; a yellow " seed." 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of small beetles. 



(E.M.) The " yellow seed" is an insect egg — a round, smooth 

 case with a yellow mass of yolk. 



(b) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 24th June, 1911. 



Fragments of insects, amongst them a small beetle ; some 

 fragments of vegetable tissue, and two smallish, dull green oval 

 seeds (? Exocarpus). 



(W.W.F.) A small weevil ; mainly remains of a very small 

 brown weevil. Hardly anything else except this beetle. 



(E.M.) Seeds of some legume. 



{c) Middle Harbour, Sydney, 24th June, 191 1. 



Fragments of insects ; skin of caterpillar. 



(W.W.F.) Mites, hawk-moth larva;, a number of small cater- 

 pillars, remains of aphids. 



Pardalotus punctatus (M. 726, H. 379). Spotted Pardalote 

 (Diamond-Bird). 

 Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles : (?) lerp-scales. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of small chrysomelid beetles (chiefly). 



