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Early next morning I found all the butterflies left over-night still 

 uneaten. The birds had neither butterflies nor sop on this day. 



VII f. I put in in the morning, while the birds had plenty of 

 maggots, single specimens of Euploea, Danais limniace and chrysippus, 

 Acrsea, Neptis, and Papilio demoleus, two P. polites (non-mimetic), one 

 P. clytia and several non-warningly-coloured butterflies including another 

 small Papilio (I think P. eurypijlus). Most of these were living. 



The Ohloropsis first attacked, a Gatopsilia ; then a Yellow-vented 

 Bulbul, a small non-warningly-coloured specimen, which I think it 

 dropped. 



Then I saw a Liothrix and a Bnlbul with a non-warningly-coloured 

 one. The Bulbul left the body of this ; but the bird is not healthy. 



I do not think the Ohloropsis managed to swallow his prey. I 

 saw him try and leave the Neptis, which a Liothrix took, and picked off 

 the wings at any rate, while there were non-warningly-coloured butter- 

 flies about. But at this time I saw a Liothrix eating plantain. 



Here I took out the sickly Bulbul to release it, and meanwhile a 

 Liothrix got out ; while keeping the door open to let it in again, one 

 P. polites got away, but no other butterflies as far as I saw. 



The small Papilio was now attacked by a Liothrix, but only the 

 head was eaten. 



Lately I saw a Zosterops seize a partly eaten non-warningly-coloured 

 butterfly and peck at a CatopsiUa in the water. I did not see any 

 eaten. I saw a Liothrix drop a Gatopsilia and make no attempt to 

 recover it. 



I then saw a Liothrix take the rejected small Papilio, and after- 

 wards found of it only wings and a bit of the thorax. 



I saw a Liothrix peck and leave a Gatopsilia, of which six lay about, 

 uneaten or nearly so. 



I found the body of the Neptis outside, and put it in, when it was 

 taken and dropped by a Liothrix. 



I saw one of these birds eat the body of, I think, a large non-warn- 

 ingly-coloured butterfly, which body I had seen lying about. There 

 were also a bit of thorax and wings of a non-warningly-coloured butter- 

 fly outside; this I gave to the Ohloropsis, but did not see what he did 

 with it. 



When I left the Gatopsilias were being attacked. 



An hour or more afterwards I found that the mimic had been torn, 

 and its head eaten — not the body. The D. chrysippus, D. limniace, and 

 Euploea were intact and alive. 



The head of the Acrsea had been pulled off, but lay near, and the 

 body was quite intact, and wings nearly so, 

 J. ii. 81 



