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whereupon the Red-whiskered Bulbul again got it and ate part ; perhaps 

 the Liothrix might have also eaten some. But from their marked lack 

 of eagerness one might infer they did not relish it much. The Red- 

 whiskered Bulbnl then took and dropped the D. limniace. 



Later on in the day the Danaines and Acrsea had apparently 

 been eaten ; I saw the wings of the latter; yet there were still maggots 

 left. 



I then put in two Catopsilias, a Junonia, and one specimen each 

 of Euploea, D. genutia and chrysippus, all alive. A Liothrix seized 

 the Junonia, and the Yellow-vented Bulbnl attacked a Catopsilia, but 

 failed to secure it. However, the Common Bulbul got and swallowed 

 one of these, while the Yellow- vented again attacked the other, which 

 was also persecuted by the Chloropsis. Then the Yellow-vented Bulbnl 

 got a good hold of the Catopsilia, and was worrying it, when the 

 Red- whiskered snatched it and swallowed it after much battering. 



None of the Danaines had been attacked yet, though the Chloropsis 

 tentatively pecked the D. genutia. The 1). chrysippus, however, was 

 soon attacked by the Liothrix and Red-whiskered Bulbul, the latter 

 bird at least eating part of it, though apparently with no great relish. 

 I then saw the Euploea pecked at by a Liothrix and then by the Red- 

 whiskered Bulbul, which wiped its beak afterwards ; this bird soon 

 afterwards returned to the attack, beat off two of the Euploea' s wiflgs 

 and swallowed it. Meanwhile a Liothrix pecked at the remains of the 

 D. chrysippus. Not long afterwards the D. genutia had disappeared 

 entirely. There were plenty of maggots still left. 



XV11. A few days after, I put into the aviary in the morning 

 (there being fruit and maggots there) one specimen each of Dannis 

 chrysippus, genutia, and limniace, Euploea, Acrsea, and Neptis, with several 

 non-warningly-coloured butterflies, Catopsilia, &c. A Liothrix took first 

 and dropped the Acrsea. The Chloropsis attacked a non-warningly- 

 coloured butterfly, but missed it. Then a Liothrix pecked and left a 

 non-warningly-coloured one, which the Red- whiskered Bulbul took and 

 ate. Meanwhile the Chloropsis took a Catopsilia, part of which he 

 apparently swallowed. A Liothrix took another non-warningly coloured 

 butterfly, but dropped it. The Red- whiskered Bulbnl then descended 

 and took a Catopsilia which it battered and then left for an Elymnias ; 

 then it left this and returned to its original prey, and swallowed this 

 after much trouble. The first insect eaten by the Common Bulbul was 

 this Elymnias. A. Liothrix pecked at the body of a large non-warningly- 

 coloured butterfly, which it or another had stripped of the wings, and I 

 think ate it. About this time I saw a Zosterops beating the body of a 

 small noii-warmDgly-eoloured specimen on the perch. The Red-whisker- 



