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Ptilotis penicillata (M. 791, H. 346). White-plumed Honey-eater. 



Murray Flats, South Australia. 



Minute fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Very minute fragments of ants and Homoptera. 

 Meliornis pyrrhoptera (M. 797, H. 353). Crescent Honey-eater. 



Adelaide, South Australia. 



Fragments of insects. 



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

 Meliornis novae-hoIJandiae (M. 799, H. 354). New Holland Honey- 

 eater. 



[a] Young bird, Coonalpyn, South Australia. 



Minute fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Insect remains — nothing definite. 



(/)) Coonalpyn. 



Portions of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Nearly all remains of white ants {Terinctidce). 

 Entomyza cyanotis (M. 813, H. 368). Blue-faced Honey-eater. 



Queensland. 



Chiefly fragments of " fruit or seeds " ; a few insect remains. 



(E.M.) Pieces of shell — effervesce with acid ; wax — soluble in 

 ether. Nothing else distinguishable. 



(W.W.F.) Lepidopterous larva ; remains of Diptera, and beetle 

 remains. 



Philemon citreogularis (M. 819, H. ^y^). Yellow-throated Friar- 

 Bird. 



Eidsvold, Queensland. 



Remains of insects ; several rounded dark brown seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Coleoptera remains, apparently ground beetles 

 (lamellicorn). 



(E.M.) Geijera. (See M. 7, H. 567.) 

 Oriolus Sagittarius (M. 850, H. 62). Oriole. 



(a) Queensland. 



A number of dark brown seeds. 

 (E.M.) Geijera. (See M. 7, H. 567.) 



(b) Queensland. 

 Several oval black seeds. 



(E.M.) Geijera. (See M. 7, H. 567.) 

 Several white cedar fruits. 

 (E.M.) Melia Azedarach, Linn. 



(c) Queensland. 



Some purplish-tinted fruit with an elongated brown seed. 

 (E.M.) ? 

 {d) Queensland. 

 Many oval black seeds. 

 (E.M.) Geijera. (See M. 7, H. 567.) 

 Sphecotheres maxillaris (M. 852, H. 64). Fig-Bird. 

 Queensland. 



About eight fruits of white cedar. 

 (E.M.) Melia Azedarach, Linn. 



