410 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES ON THE FOOD OF BIRDS. 
CoLLEcTED BY FRANK NOoRGATE. 
(Concluded from p. 325.) 
Larwine.—Insects, slugs, and earthworms (Yarrell). 
TurNsToNnE.—Small Crustacea and Mollusca (Yarrell). During 
summer feeds on bees, larvee of Argynnis chariclea and Dasychira 
grenlandica, and Tipule. Stomachs almost filled with larve 
(Yarrell). ' 
SANDERLING.—Sea-worms, small Mollusca, shrimps and other 
Crustacea, minute beetles, small white worms, sandhoppers 
(Stevenson). 
OysTERCATCHER. — Marine insects, worms, and Mollusca 
(Yarrell). Limpets, mussels and cockles (Harting). 
Cranr.—Aquatic plants, worms, reptiles, molluses, and grain 
(Yarrell). 
Heron.—Fish, reptiles, small mammals, and birds (Yarrell). 
Frogs, water beetles, boat-flies, water rats, and especially pike-fry 
and eels (Stevenson). Feeds its young with eels; these and pike 
seem to be about the most destructive fish we have in our British 
fresh-waters (F'. N.) The Heron also devours young wild ducks, 
and will take young Moorhens from the nest (Harting). 
PurrLe Hreron.—Aquatic insects, small mammals, reptiles, 
and fish (Yarrell). 
Great Wuire Heroy.—Fish, aquatic insects, molluscs, and 
reptiles (Yarrell). 
Burr-BackED Hrron.—Attends cattle, and eats insects from 
and amongst them (Yarrell). On the banks of the Perak River 
an allied species of Heron, Buphus coromandus, attends buffaloes, 
perching even on their backs and freeing them from ticks and 
other obnoxious insects (‘ Field,’ March (th, 1880). 
Squacco Heron.—Insects, molluscs, and small fish (Yarrell). 
Lirrte Birrern.—Frogs, fry of fish, insects, molluses, and 
small reptiles (Yarrell). 
Birrern.—Insects, Dytiscus marginalis, Notonecta, and eels 
(Stevenson). Coleoptera, small mammals, small birds and fish 
(dace), frogs, warty lizards, and young Water Rails (Yarrell). 
Niegut Hrron.— Aquatic insects, small reptiles, and fish 
(Yarrell). 
