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was found. Even tliougli the wings of the butterflies had 

 been removed and the bodies crushed in swallowing, yet 

 some characteristic part, as the head with the curled 

 proboscis, or the peculiar legs or abdomen, would sometimes 

 have been recognized if they had frequently been present, 

 at least when 1 was particularly looking for them. 



For its bearing on the point above mentioned, as well as 

 for its more general interest, a summary of a count of the 

 entries in my note-books during six years, of the different 

 kinds of insects and similar small creatures found in birds' 

 stomachs, is here given. Larvai of insects were not counted. 



Coleoptera were recognised and recorded in 213 stomachs ; 

 Orthoptera in 177 ; Ants in 57 (mostly in stomachs of birds 

 of the genus Dendromus) ; other Hymenoptera in 8 ; Cocci 

 in 32 ; Rhyncliota in 19 ; Termites in 31 ; Slugs and Snails 

 in 21 ; Spiders in 85 (mostly stomachs of Sunbirds) ; Milli- 

 pedes in 20 ; some other kinds of insects or small animals 

 each in one or two stomachs ; Butterflies in none ! 



Supplementary Note. 



Since writing the first part of this paper (see above, 

 p. 479) I have had the great pleasure of a short visit to the 

 Museum of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, where, 

 with the very kind and cordial assistance of Mr. Witmer 

 Stone, I was enabled to see the types of some of Cassin's 

 species. In the preceding pages appear the results of my 

 examination of the types of Turdirostris fulvescens and 

 Geocichla compsonota. But regarding two birds belonging 

 to Part I. of this paper, which was then already in the press, 

 I take this opportunity of reporting as follows : — 



A comparison of one of my specimens of Alseonax olivas- 

 cens (see above, p. 522) with Cassin's type leaves no doubt 

 that it is identical with Cassin's Parisoma olivascens. An 

 examination of the type of Cassin's Butalis epulaius like- 

 wise shews that it is Sharpe's Alseonax fantisiensis (see 

 above, p. 521). 



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