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1 now gave her a few grasshoppers, and on her refusing absolutely to touch 

 another offered her a Pyrameis cardui, a Precis archesia, a Catopsilia Jlorella, and 

 a Precis cebrene, all of which were persistently refused without tasting. 



Ten minutes later the bird tasted and i^ejected Leuceronia argia $ and Eurytela 

 dryope, ate readily after slightly crushing each two Precis archesia and a Precis 

 elgiva, but was evidently nearly replete, for she now just crushed slightly and threw 

 aside a second Precis elgiva and a Pyrameis cardui and refused without tasting a 

 Precis cebrene and a Precis natalensis f . 



Five minutes later she refused without tasting Precis elgiva, Pyrameis cardui, 

 Precis cebrene, Precis antilope, and Cyrestis camillus, crushed slightly and dropped 

 Precis natalensis f., crushed and ate a yellow Catopsilia, and then crushed 

 and readily ate the Precis natalensis on my reoffering it. She then crushed 

 and tossed aside a Pyrameis, refused without tasting a Precis cebrene, crushed and 

 swallowed a Hamanumida dcedahis, again refused without tasting a P. cebrene, but 

 crushed and swallowed a second H. dcedalus, refused without tasting a Precis 

 antilope, and crushed and readily ate an Atella phalantha. 



Only tbree minutes later she readily ate, after slightly crushing each, the Precis 

 antilope, a common cockroach, a Precis cebrene, a Pyrameis cardui, and a Precis 

 clelia, refused obstinately without tasting a Cyrestis camillus and a Teracohts (?) 

 (mimic of Zepfosza), refused, then crushed and swallowed a, Hesperia without smell, 

 and refused, then tasted very slightly and dropped a dark skipper, afterwards 

 refusing it persistently without tasting. 



[Summary: — (1) Grades :■ — 

 {a) 



1. Swift-moth and [ i. Grasshoppers, C. florella, H. dmdalus, A. phalantha. 



Encosternum \ 



deleaorauei i ^- ^- ^^g^'^'^^ P- cebrene, P. antilope, and P. natalensis f., 

 C P. dardanus perhaps slightly above L. argia on manner. 



2. P. lyceus. 



„ , . , ^3. Probably (for they were below P. archesia) L. argia $ and 



\ E. dry ope. 



With 2 and 3 may also be bracketed P. cardui, JV. saclava, N. agatha, 



N. goochi, and Ypthima. Also whatever the Cyrestis (not tasted) and 



Teracolus wei-e taken for. 



Cb) 1. C. florella. 1 ^ . , 

 ^ ^ '' \ K. jorestan. 



2. N. saclava. J 



3. Terias, P. isokani, M. rueppelli, A. caldarena, A. acrcea, 



A. lobengida. 



The hasty dropping of the R. forestan, probably on account of its Amauris-Vike 

 smell, reminds one of the bird's dropping of the Oetoniid, Neptunides polychrous, 

 on its commencing to buzz. 



(2) A note states the following order, based presumably mainly on manner : — 



1. P. lyceus. 



2. P. dardanus. 1 _ , 



. ^ ) E. dryope. 



3. L. argia $ . j ^ ^ 



4. E. hiarhas. 



