THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. V.] AUGUST, 1881. [No. 56. 
NOTES ON THE FOOD OF BIRDS. 
CoLLEcTED BY FRANK NORGATE. 
Hogsy.—In addition to small birds, feeds on the dung-beetle, 
Geotrupes stercorarius (Yarrell), and dragonflies (Harting). 
ReEpD-FooTED Fatcon.—Large Coleoptera (Yarrell) and dragon- 
flies (Harting). 
Meruin.—Chiefly Larks, Pipits, and Linnets; occasionally 
Snipe and Dunlin; also large moths, principally of the Eggar 
species (Booth, Zool. 1878, p. 133). 
KxsTReL.—Chiefly field-mice and grasshoppers; occasionally 
small birds, especially Starlings (Harting). Coleopterous insects 
and their larve, earthworms, cockchaffers (Yarrell), meadow 
brown(?) butterfly (F. Norgate). 
SpaARROWHAWK.— Birds, mice, and lizards. 
Kirz.— Twenty-two moles have been found in a Kite’s nest. 
It preys also on frogs and snakes (Yarrell), and on young game of 
all kinds (Booth, Zool. 1879, p. 58). 
RoveH-LEGcED Buzzarp.—Remains of six rats in one 
stomach (‘ Field,’ Nov. 20th, 1880). Mice, frogs, &c. (Yarrell). 
Honey Buzzarp.—Wasps and their larve, Coleoptera and 
their larvee, whitish coloured hairy larve, pupe of a butterfly and 
of the six-spot Burnet moth, frogs and grey snails, larve of bees, 
rats, and lizards (Yarrell). 
Marsn Harrrer.—Small mammals and birds, especially the 
young of waterfowl, reptiles and fish (Yarrell). 
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