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3. The close inspection and very waiy trial of the Ps&udacrcea was of rather 

 special interest.] 



Exp. 114. — December- 4. Hungry; tasted and rejected Mylothris yulei J, 

 Aletis ononteironis, Exosoma bimaculata, and an ant [PLcUythyrea cribrinodis), but 

 ate with the greatest eagerness Myccdesis campina. 



After an interval, the bird receiving no food meantime, she readily ate after 

 crushing it the Mylothris yulei (a S with smell strongly developed), wings and all, 

 crushed and rejected Exosoma bimaculata and Platythyrea cribrinodis, but ate, 

 though with dislike and after an unusually prolouged crushing and battering, an 

 adult $ locust, Zonocerus elegans. 

 [Probable order : — 



Zonocerus ( 1. M. cavipina. 

 elegans. \ 2. M. yulei. 



3. Exosoma bimaculata and Platythyrea cribrinodis.^ 



Exp. 115. — December 5. Tasted and at once rejected with disgust a beetle 

 (Lycus) ; refused, then crushed and rejected a Mylothris yulei d" , but without 

 special signs of disgust; refused for a time, then tasted and rejected with disgust 

 a larva of a Coccinellid, but eagerly ate a Mycalesis campina and, after distinctly 

 tasting it, a Tarucus pUnius. She then ate fifteen small grasshoppers in quick 

 succession and, after them, readily, a second Tarucus 2)linius and another Mycalesis 

 campina, also a small white moth. After seven more small grasshoppers she 

 again readily ate a Myc. campina, and after five more refused for some seconds, 

 then tasted and rejected an Azanus moriqaa, but on m}^ reoffering it again tasted 

 and this time swallowed it. She then accepted and ate a Mycalesis campina, but 

 treated a Tarucus plhiius exactly as she had done the Azanus, eating it similarly 

 in the end. 



After three more grasshoppers she refused, then tasted and rejected both Azanus 

 moriqua and Tarucus jiliiiius, and afterwards refvised obstinately to have anything 

 more to do with them ; ref vxsed a Mycalesis campina, then leant forward and 

 nearly closed her bill on it, but withdrew without removing it from the forceps. 

 Five minutes later she refvised the Myc. camjnna with shakes of the head and 

 clappings of the bill, tasted hesitatingly and rejected in turn Lampides bcetica and 

 Tarucus plinius, and five minutes later persistently refused to taste either again. 



Fifteen minutes later she refused obstinately to taste a Nacaduba sichela, though 

 she once leant forward doubtfully and nearly did so ; accepted doubtfully, but then 

 ate with apparent relish a Henotesia j^ersjncuja, persistently refused to even taste a 

 Terias, and refused for some seconds, then tasted slightly and hesitatingly and 

 withdrew without actually accepting the Nacaduba sichela. She then ate in quick 

 succession eight more grasshoppers before refusing to eat more — as usual I now 

 offered several palatable species without succeeding in tempting her appetite, — 

 persistently refused to touch Catachrysops dolorosa or a Papilio arigolanus, but 

 very readily accepted and ate an An-ugia basuta 6 . 



The butterflies in the above experiment had all wings attached. The Lycsenids 

 were quite evidently disliked. 



