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The Teracolus was eaten up to the refusal-point of the two Papilios (or itself 

 spoilt the bird's appetite for these). H. misippus was also then eaten to a point at 

 which the Papilios were refused, then itself refused.] 



Exp. 164. — March 29. Obstinately refused to touch a $ If. agathina with 

 practically no scent, refused, then tasted and rejected a Terias senegalensis, crushed 

 and readily ate a B. mesentina, wings and all, just closed her bill on an Amimitus 

 glohuUjnunis and withdrew without a real attempt to crush it, crushed well, 

 breaking it up, and threw away a dull-coloured beetle, Scaptohius pentarthrms, and 

 refused it with shakes of the head on my reofFering it (certainly unpleasant), 

 refused to have anything to do with a common large Coprid larva, ate a few 

 small grasshoppers and finally refused persistently to take any more, twice 

 crushed and rejected a dragon-fly, tasted and rejected an E. hiarhas with 

 wings and a P. angolmius and a P. dardanus S with only one wing, 

 crushed and rejected a second dragon-fly, ate with disinclination a wingless 

 P. demodoGus, tasted and rejected one of the dragon-flies without wings, ate a 

 P. angolanus again with disinclination, and now tasted and rejected a P. dardanus S 

 as also another P. angolanus, each wingless, crushed slightly and dropped a. large 

 5 E. neophron, but on my reoffering it crushed it more thoroughly and ate it 

 readily, tasted and rejected a Oarabid, Polyhirma bilunata, Boh., and refused to 

 touch a small Tipulid fly. 



[Oixler : — 

 Belenois mesentina i 

 (not tried, how- ^- Euphcedra neophron. 

 ever against the - 2. Papilio deniodocus (with disinclina- ~) 

 last three in- tion). I Papilio angolanus. 



sects in " 4 "). 3. Grasshoppers. J 



4. Terias senegalensis, Mylothr is agathina,^ Papilio dardanus S ■ 

 Am. glohulipennis, Scapt. pientar- iDragon-fly 10. 

 thrius, Ooprid larva. J Eurytela hiarhas.'] 



Exp. 165. — March 30. Hungry. With a few minutes' interval between each, 

 crushed and rejected with dislike two separate hive-bees, readily ate a B. mesen- 

 tina, refused, then tasted and threw away a Terias senegalensis, refused to touch 

 another hive-bee (I had killed each bee before offering it), cruslied and rejected 

 two dragon flies, crushed and readily ate another B. mesentina, refused to touch a 

 different wingless dragon-fly or a Terias senegalensis, tried an Amiantus glohuli- 

 pennis in her bill, but, finding it hard, threw it away. 



A little later she crushed well and swallowed a beetle, Himatismus fascicidosus, 

 refused, then accepted, crushed and swallowed a T. senegalensis, refused, then 

 crushed and threw right away a hive-bee and obstinately refused to touch a dragon- 

 fly. Later again she refused, then tasted and rejected a $ M. agathina, very readily 

 ate a T. senegalensis, crushed well and again threw away the Mylothris, still with all 

 its wings, tasted and at once rejected it with only one wing, accepted a <S Nejjtunides 

 polychrous and tried to crush and batter it, but the beetle was tough and slippery 



