246 MR. 0. F. M. SWYNNERTON ON THE 



L. thalassina (and perhaps N. agatha and E. hiarhas) to A. esebria, J^. leuconoe, 

 and M. agathina, and with Atella (and peidiaps L. bcetica and Terias) to N. medusa. 

 A. esebria, N. leuconoe, and M. agathina probably not above Terias, above N. agatha 

 or E. hiarbas, Terias or M. campina over L. thalassina, or P. carclui, P. cebrene, or 

 L. bcetica over the large species of Charaxes eaten at the end.] 



Exp. 29. — May 28. AFter a longish fast, hungry in manner. Crushed and at 

 once ate Terias senegalensis, wingless. I then gave a Mylothris agathina. She 

 crushed and quite evidently disliked it, but hesitated as though almost persuaded 

 by her appetite to swallow it nevertheless, then threw it away. She then readily 

 accepted and swallowed a Belenois niesentina with no sign of dislike. 



Next, after eagerly eating two Charaxes cithoeron, offered as usual in the case of 

 the larger Charaxes without wings, she tasted well and at once rejected a Terias- 

 There could be no doubt as to her present dislike for it. 



Then, after one Charaxes brutus and one Charaxes candiope, she crushed and ate 

 a thorax of a wingless Phrissura isokani, having snatched it away so that the 

 abdomen remained in the forceps. I now offered this (the abdomen) and it was 

 crushed and thrown away. 



I then gave the bird another Charaxes brutus natalensis and another Charaxes 

 candiope and offered her three times a wingless Pseudacrcea lucretia (gravid § ). 

 It was each time thoroughly tasted and tossed away, and a c? with one wing was 

 similarly crushed and rejected. The bird then tasted and rejected a Byblia but 

 readily enough ate the next two. The next (a different individual from the first) 

 was, however, rejected. She now ate readily after thorough crushing a Papilio 

 demodoGus with one wing, but tasted and emphatically rejected a Mycalesis cainpi7ia, 

 immediately afterwards readily eating a Leuceronia thalassina S (wingless). A 

 $ Phrissura isokani (with one wing) was now refused without tasting but finally 

 crushed and at once swallowed. 



The bird now ate two Charaxes candiop)e and then accepted, tasted, hesitated for 

 a second over and swallowed a Leuceronia thalassina § . She then tasted and 

 readily ate a Eurytela dryope with one wing, but refused without tasting a wingless 

 Eurytela hiarbas, possibly suspecting it of being a Neptis. Finally, however, she 

 tasted it cautiously and, with an air of reassurance, swallowed it, readily ate a 

 Papilio lyceus S after crushing it well, again tasted and rejected the $ Pseudacrcea 

 lucretia, but crushed and readily ate an Atella phalantha. A Byblia was now 

 crushed and eaten, the next tasted and rejected, a third tasted and readily eaten, 

 a fourth with a slight musk-smell crushed and rejected emphatically, and a fifth 

 refused persistently without tasting. She then crushed and readily ate a Melanitis 

 leda and a Precis archesia (each with one wing), also a Hamanumida dcBdalus and a 

 Precis ceryne. 



A Charaxes brutus natalensis and a Charaxes cithcero7i followed and, after them, 



a Charaxes neanthes and a Pyrameis cardui were eaten, both most readily. She 



then crushed a Henotesia perspicua, wavered a good deal over it, but finally threw 



it away and wiped her bill, and tasted and very promptly rejected Myc. oanipina. 



A Charaxes brutus natalensis and a Charaxes cithceron were now once more 



