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ed Bulbul soon after attacked another Gatopsilia, but allowed the Chlo- 

 ropsis (which had previously been attacking these) to take it. The Red- 

 whiskered Bulbul then attacked a male Hypolimnas, and ate it with less 

 trouble than the Catopsilia. It then attacked another Catopsilia, which 

 a Liothrix somehow got, and the Common Bulbul also wanted it. The 

 Liothrix did not seem eager, and another of these birds got the insect, 

 and afterwards the Chloropsis had it. 



Then the Common Bulbul ate a bit of a Gatopsilia. It then made 

 two or three nights to where the J), limniace and Euplcea were sitting 

 uninjured on the wire-netting, but did not take either. However, it 

 took and ate whole the D. chrysippus, the first " protected " butterfly 

 eaten on this occasion. But the Catopsilia in the possession of the 

 Chloropsis was now the only non-waimingly- coloured butterfly visible. 



The Neptis and Acrsea had also disappeared, but I saw uo wings 

 about, nor did I see them eaten ; probably they got through the netting. 

 The Chloropsis now succeeded, apparently, in eating the body of the 

 Gatopsilia. There were plenty of maggots. 



About an hour afterwards the remaining butterflies {Euploea, 

 B. genutia, and limniace) were gone, some wings only of the D. limniace 

 remaining. 



In the evening I put into the aviary (where there was plenty of 

 fruit, but no maggots, these having been taken out) one specimen each 

 of Neptis, Euploea, D. genutia and limniace, and several non-warningly- 

 coloured butterflies. 



The Chloropsis soon took a Catopsilia, which it ultimately ate, I 

 think. A Liothrix took the Neptis (the wings only of which I found 

 afterwards), and the Red-whiskered Bulbul a Gatopsilia, which it 

 apparently swallowed. The Common Bulbul took a male Hypolimnas, 

 which escaped, but the bird caught it again and with difficulty swallowed 

 it. A Liothrix took and picked a Catopsilia, which I think it ate ; I 

 found no body. 



While one Catopsilia, the two Danais and the Euploea were still 

 left, I put in another Neptis, which a Liothrix took at once. 



The Yellow-vented Bulbul seized a Catopsilia, which escaped ; this 

 was the first butterfly touched by it to-day. Ultimately a Liothrix ate 

 nearly the whole of this specimen. Before this also the second Neptis 

 had apparently been eaten. 



When the birds had roosted the V. genutia, D. limniace, and Euploea 

 still clung uninjured to the netting. 



XVIII. Next morning, only the Danais limniace was uneaten, of 

 the butterflies left over-night, and this was headless ; later on the body 

 also had apparently been devoured. 



