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marginalis, four Scarabeus stercorarius, one Silpha rugosa, and 
two Harpalus sp.? (Dresser). Moles, rats, mice, frogs, birds, 
insects, bullhead, loach, and other fish, &c. (Yarrell). 
Snowy Own.—Feeds almost exclusively on lemmings, near 
Discovery Bay. ‘Twenty-seven lemmings and remains of a hare 
were arranged round one nest of eggs and young; such supplies 
were also seen surrounding a nest of eggs alone (H. Chichester 
Hart, Zool. 1880, pp. 122, 128). 
Hawk Owxz.—Mice, insects and birds (Yarrell). 
TENemaLm’s Own.—Mice and large insects (Yarrell). 
Great Grey Surike.—Large insects, especially beetles, mice, 
shrews, frogs, lizards, and small birds (Yarrell). Wasps and 
Vanessa Urtice (Stevenson). 
ReED-BACKED SuRIkE.—May chaffer and other insects, mice 
and small birds (Yarrell). Impaled on acacia and whitethorn I 
have found one Carabus violaceus, one Geotrupes, one fragment of 
Necrophorus, two Bombus virginalis, five B. leucorum, five B. 
Latreillellus, six B. lapidarius: of these four species of humble- 
bees, eighteen specimens were queens. Also one frog, one Wren, 
one Ray's Wagtail, one young Linnet, and two Sand Martins 
(F. Norgate). 
Sporrep FrycatcHER.—Believed to feed almost exclusively 
on winged insects (Yarrell). Bluebottle-flies (Bartlett). 
Prep FiycatcHer.— Winged insects (Yarrell.) 
Dirrer. — Beetles, larve of Ephenere and Phryganee 
(Yarrell). Soft-shelled Mollusca, such as Limnea, Ancylus. 
Various water-beetles and their larve, water-spiders (Argy- 
roneta), dragonflies (Agrion) and their pupe, and the larve of 
caddis-flies (Harting). The water-boatman (Notonecta), larve 
of Ephemera (most destructive to salmon-spawn), Phryganea, 
Hydrophilus (most of these insects feed on fish-spawn), besides 
such fresh-water molluscs as Lymnea and Ancylus, already named 
(Stevenson). 
Sone TurusH.—Snails and worms, insects of various species, 
and fruit. 
FIELDFARE and Repwine.—Larve, worms, slugs, beetles, and 
berries of various kinds. 
BuackBirD.—Larve, worms, snails, and fruit. In January 
the Blackbird feeds on spiders, pupe, and seeds; February, 
spiders, pup, and seeds; March, grubs, worms, and buds of 
