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(i) STOMACH CONTENTS OF BIRDS. 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S., Museum Entomologist. 



\Contribution from the South Austral) (in Museum.] 



Many stomach were preserved, but unfortunately only 

 about half of them were labelled ; the others had the labels 

 either detached or obliterated by the violent jolting to which 

 all camel-borne material is subjected. For the identification 

 of the seed contents we have to thank Mr. H. W. Andrew. 

 The mammalian remains were identified by Mr. E. R. Waite, 

 and the reptilian remains by Mr. F. R. Zietz. 



In the following list only the technical names of the birds 

 are given ; they are in the same sequence as in the preceding 

 paper (h) : — 



Austroturnix v. velox.— Small caterpillar; three thin 

 reddish-yellow seeds and some vegetable matter ; fine grit. 



Peltohyas australis. — (1) Head of small water beetle; 

 many minute fragments of insects, mostly of minute weevils; 

 some small grit. (2) As in first stomach, except that there 

 were no remains of a water beetle. (3) Fragments of weevils, 

 as in two first stomachs*; minute water beetle (Bidessus 

 bistrigatus); small grit. (4) Two caterpillars; small weevil 

 (Elaeagna squamibunda ) ; a few other fragments of minute 

 insects ; vegetable matter (probably small galls) ; small pebble 

 grit. (5) Numerous bits of scorpion; fine pebble grit. (6) 

 Numerous caterpillars of several sorts; heads, etc., of 

 ichneumon wasps ; some very fine grit. 



Myola pacifica. — Abdomen distended with a fresh water 

 crustacean ( Apus australi ensis ) ; many water beetles (Eretes 

 australis) and bits of others ; bits of ground beetle (Phorti- 

 cosomus grandis). 



Milvus korschun affinis. — (1) Bits of lizard ( Amphibo- 

 lous or Tympanocry ptus) ; numerous heads and other frag- 

 ments of ants. (2) Bits of two kinds of lizards (Lygosoma 

 lesueurii, and as in first stomach) ; several small feathers ; 

 numerous large caterpillars and several small ones ; bits of 

 o-reen beetle (Galosoma schayeri); bits of weevil (Leptops). 



Hieracoglaux connivens. — Bones and stomach of small 

 bird ; bits of small lizard ( Amphibolurus or Tympanocry ptus ) . 



Tyto alba delicatula. — Two small mammals (Sminthopsis 

 crassicaudata ) . 



