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wing tasted suspiciously and rejected the body. Five minutes later she again 

 tasted and rejected it, crushed very thoroughly and rejected, but on my reoffering 

 it again crushed and this time ate a cricket (No. 8) that rather resembles a 

 longicorn — she was evidently doubtfid about it, — crushed and rejected a biting fly 

 {Rhinomyza denticornis) after showing distinct hesitation in accepting it, dropped 

 a Cetoniid, Leucocelis ichthyurus (it had been seized in the tip of the bill and 

 slipped out accidentally), but obtained a better grip on my reoffering it and 

 crushed and ate it readily, again crushed and rejected the fly and refused it on 

 my reoffering it, lost a second Cetoniid in the same fashion (I was unable to find 

 it to reoffer), twice crushed very carefully and thoroughly and each time ended 

 by throwing away a beetle, Himatismus fasciculosus, crushed and very readily ate 

 a Libi/thea, refused, then tasted slightly and rejected the wingless § H. misipjnts, 

 but readily accepted, crushed, and ate a J O. Jlorella. 



Fifteen minutes later she twice crushed well and rejected the 2 H. niisipjnts, 

 crushed thoroughly — it was rather hard — and ate with apparent relish a Lycoid 

 wasp, crushed and ate the P. demodocios that she had previously rejected, tasted 

 very slightly and threw away the H. misipjms, refused for a long time and finally 

 crushed and threw away a P. angolanus. 



Five or ten minutes later some more butterflies came in. I offered a P. lyceus 

 which was accepted and eaten, as was, readily, an E. liiarhas. The bird then for 

 some time refused to have anything to do with a P. angolanus, but finally accepted 

 it, crushed, held it for some time, evidently undecided whether to eat it, and 

 finally swallowed it, but refused the H. misippus without tasting. 



A little later I fed her on very small grasshoppers, etc., till she would eat no 

 more. She then for a long time refused P. angolanas, but finally crushed it 

 slightly and threw it away, tasted slightly and rejected, but on my reoffering it 

 crushed very thoroughly and very doubtfully ate a P. lyceus after having twice 

 made as though to throw it away, again obstinately refused to taste P. angolanus, 

 crushed and rejected an Atella phalantha, refused for a long time a Hypolimnas 

 ■wahlhergi with a forewing attached, evidently regarding it with the greatest 

 suspicion, then just took it in the point of her bill and dropped it without 

 crushing, refused without tasting the wingless 5 //. misippus, refused for a 

 considerable time P. cehrene, being evidently replete, but finally accepted and ate 

 it, refused, then once more barely tasted and rejected H. wahlhergi, and treated 

 Atella phalantha in the same way. 

 [Lists : — 



(a) 1. Grasshoppers, Phrissura isokani, E. hiarhas, and probably 

 Corynodes dejeani. 

 2. Lycus nr. constrictus, Coccinellid (84). 

 (6) Teracolus sp. and E. hiarhas beside or just above P. 



angolanus, but latter placed more or less with Belenois 

 severina and mesentina, though it may for the Pierines 

 have been a matter of stimulation. E. hiarhas, grass- 

 hoppers, and Precis delta above Belenois severiiia and 

 mesentina and Terias. 



