THE COLORATION PROBLEMS. 



Place. — Canford, Dorset. 

 [Note. — 12 visits to the nest.] 



Duration. — 1 hour 40 minutes. 



Time.— 1.45 to 4.5. 



Sex.— 7 ? , 9 <? . 



Duration. — 2 hours 10 minutes. 



Observer. — E. H. Curtis. 

 Date.— May 23rd, 1915. 

 Place. — Canford, Dorset. 

 [Note. — 16 visits to the nest.] 



Food. — The food on every occasion vi^as entirely green or pale 

 yellow^ish-green Lepidopterous larvfe, mostly Geometrae. 



Observer. — W. P. Curtis. Time. — 9.40 a.m. 



Date.— July 15th, 1916. Sex.— ? . 



Place. — Broadstone, Dorset. Duration. — Casual. 



Food. — Hunted a Camptograwwa hilineata out of a hedge into the 

 •open, and into the hedge again, could not see if attack completed. 



[JNote. — There are here 55 observations, only one of which is an 

 attack on a lepidopterous imago, and it is not known whether that 

 one was completed, but the one attack was on an insect at rest.] 



6. Emberiza citrinella, L. The Yellow Bunting. 



Time. — Morning. 

 Sex. — $ and J . 

 Duration. — 40 minutes. 



Observer. — W. P. Curtis. 



Date. — June 1st, 1914. 



Place. — Widdam Down, Owsle- 

 bury. 



Food. — Observations at nest. Both parents fed with beetles and 

 insects ; but I had lost my pencil and could keep no proper note, more- 

 over, the birds poked through the bushes at the back of the nest. 



Time. — Afternoon, 2.10. Duration. — IJ hours. 



Food. — Unidentified. Sex. — <y . 



Time.— 2.15. 



Food. — Unidentified. 



Time.— 2.25. 



Food. — Unidentified. 



Time.— 2.26. 



Food. — Unidentified. 



Sex.— ? 



Sex.— ? 

 Sex.— ^ 



Time.— 2.28. Sex.— $ . 



Food. — A Hymenopterous fly. I afterwards found a fly on a clump 

 of spruce near, from which the parents were getting food which had 

 the coloration of this fly, but it was a Dipteron, so I may have been 

 mistaken. 



Time.— 2.32. Sex.— <? 

 Food. — Unidentified. 



Time.— 2.33. Sex.— 3^ 

 Food. — Small black flies. 



Time.— 2.34. Sex.— $ 



Food. — Small beetles with red undersides to the abdomen. 



Time.— 3.5. Sex.— ? 

 Food. — Small insects. 



Time.— 3.7. Sex. — $ 

 JFooD. — No food. 



