l8 Cleland, Contents of Stomachs and Crops of Birds. [t^^"\"u\ , 



Chibia bracteata (M. 854, H. 66). Drongo. 



Numerous large fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Wings of Orthoptera (grasshopi:)ers) ; heads of 

 Jongicorn beetles ; other beetle remains. 



Chlamydodera maculata (M. 861, H. 167). Spotted Bower-Bird. 



(a) Queensland. 



Many black seeds ; some legs of insects. 



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



{h) Queensland. 



Three white cedar berries. 



(E.M.) Mclia Azedarach, Linn. 



Some fragments of insect wings. 



(c) Queensland. 



Four white cedar berries ; one orange fruit. 



(E.^I.) White cedar {Mclia Azedarach, Linn.) 



((0 Queensland. 



Two white cedar berries. 



(E.M.) Melia Azedarach, Linn. 



{e) Queensland. 



Four white cedar berries. 



(E.M.) Mclia Azedarach, Linn. 



Corcorax melanorhamphus (M. 88j, H. 54). White-winged Chough. 



{a) Queensland. 



A large beetle ; many other fragments of insects ; seeds — [a) 

 small yellowish, {b) large oval brown. 



(E.M.) {a) Two Setaria glauca : the rest a mixture of grains 

 free from the glumes, and some with glumes which appear to be 

 a species of panicum ; (b) ? 



(W.W.F.) Locusts (grasshoppers) ; Heteromera (ground 

 beetles) ; spiders. 



(b) Portions of large insects (? cockroaches) ; a number of grass 

 seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Large quantity of seeds; remains of heteromerous 

 beetles ; two bits of skin-like material, not caterpillars. 



(E.M.) Seeds, either Graminece or Cyperacecc. 



Introduced Birds. 



Passer domesticus. Sparrow. 

 Fragments of grain. 



Emus Bogged. — Brewarrina (N.S.W.) — Neither feed nor water 

 is to be had anywhere in the district. Emus make their way to 

 the waterholes, most of which are almost dry, and the birds, in 

 their quest after water, wade through mud and become bogged. 

 They are mostly too weak to extricate themselves, and hundreds 

 are meeting tlieir death in this way. Half a dozen residents of 

 the district are m.aking a lucrative living by shooting Emus and 

 skinning them, the skins ])ringing from 6s. to 8s. each in Sydney. — 

 Argus, 1/5/ 12- 



