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In the evening it ate a non-mimetic P. polites. Then it tried and 

 refused a Euplcea, then readily ate a Gatopsilia. Next, though pressed, 

 it refused a Danais genutia, but ate two Gatopsilias readily, and after 

 again rejecting this Danais, ate four more Catopsilias. 



November 18th. — The Danais genutia left overnight was gone this 

 morning, but the " sweeper " might have removed it from the cage. I 

 gave the bird first a Delias eucharis and then a Gatopsilia, both of which 

 it ate with equal readiness. Then I gave it a D. chrysippus, which it 

 tried more than once, eating a bit of wing, but finally rejected. This 

 insect then flew away, in spite of having been taken hold of both with 

 bill and foot by the bird. Then I gave a D. genutia, which was tried and 

 refused at first, but eaten whole when offered again. Then a Gatopsilia 

 was given, and eaten at once. The bird then ate one each of D. genutia 

 and D, chrysippus, but would not eat a second specimen of the latter, 

 which I accordingly took out. 



November 20th. — I gave the Bhimraj, which was not hungry, a 

 Delias eucharis, which it tried and refused, repeating the refusal when 

 the insect was again offered. It did not even touch a Papilio aristo- 

 lochise, put on the floor, but ate two P. demoleus, one immediately, and 

 the other when picked up and offered to it. It then ate two Gatopsilias, 

 but not a third, though eating a locust. 



November 21st. — In the morning I saw the Bhimraj look at, but 

 not touch, the Delias eucharis and Papilio aristolochise which had been 

 left in its cage from yesterday. I then gave it a Gatopsilia and a 

 Danais chrysippus on the floor of its cage. It looked at the Danais, 

 and took and ate the Gatopsilia. I then put in a D. limniace, which the 

 bird did not notice much, if at all, and certainly did not touch. Then it 

 refused even to try a fresh P. aristolochise, but ate with persuasion a 

 mimetic P. polites. I left the two P. aristolochise, the D. eucharis, and 

 D. limniace in the cage, and put in three D. chrysippus. 



After the butterflies left had been taken away, I then gave the 

 bird, which was hungry, two specimens each of Junonia, Gatopsilia, and 

 D. chrysippus on the floor of the cage. It picked up and ate first the 

 Catopsilias and then the Junonias, though it picked up and dropped one 

 of the Danais before eating the second of the latter. Then, leaving 

 the two D. chrysippus in the cage, I put in two Papilio demoleus and 

 a D. genutia ; the bird did not eat these, though eagerly eating meat, 

 and they remained uneaten all day, and were left in at night. 



November 22nd.— The butterflies left overnight were all uneaten 

 this morning, and the bird, though pressed, refused to eat a fresh 

 Papilio demoleus, so I took all out. 



November 24ith. — I gave the Bhimraj a Papilio demoleus, which it 



