656 F. Finn — Experiments with various Birds. [No 4, 



November 2§th. — In the morning, the bird not being hungry, I 

 found the Danais chrysipp?is left overnight in the cage still whole, and 

 the abdomen of the D. genutia. I put in another D. chrysippus, and a 

 Papilio demoleus, of which the latter was first taken, pecked about, and 

 eaten, and the bird was pecking the Danais when I put in a non- 

 mimetic P. polites. The bird left the Danais and pecked off one of the 

 wings of the P. polites, and then remained quiet for a little. Soon after 

 I found the P. polites had been pecked to pieces, and its body was gone. 

 The head of the D. chrysippus put in was also missing. After the 

 bird had been pecking at this insect, I put in a D. limniace and a 

 P. demoleus. The bird attacked the Danais first, pecked off the wings, 

 and ate the abdomen ; it then attacked the D. demoleus, not very 

 eagerly. Some time after I found the body of the latter, stripped of 

 the wings, outside. I put it in the cage, and the abdomen at all events 

 disappeared, though there were the body of one D. chrysippus, and the 

 thorax and wings of another, still there. On emptying the cage, I 

 found the abdomen of some large butterfly behind the tray, and some 

 heads, and bits of thorax there and in the tray itself. 



Later on, the bird being still not hungry, I put in two D. chrysippus 

 and a P. demoleus. The bird pecked at all three, and left them for a 

 while. The Papilio was the first attacked, so far as I saw, but a Danais 

 was more pecked. Then the P. demoleus was again attacked. I was 

 now away for some time, and on returning in the evening found all 

 three butterflies uneaten, and threw them away. 



December 1st. — I put in in the morning, the bird not being hungry, 

 two Danais limniace and a Papilio demoleus. The Shama first attacked 

 a limniace, but ate none. 



Some hours later, I put in one specimen each of Junonia, Atella 

 phalanta, and D. chrysippus. 



The Shama first ate the Atella, and then attacked the Junonia, which 

 soon disappeared. I put in one non-mimetic Papilio polites and two 

 P. aristolochiss. One of the latter was first attacked, but two or three 

 hours afterwards I found it outside, with its wings much torn ; the 

 other was almost intact, while the P. polites had been pecked to pieces 

 and its body was gone. The P. demoleus and the two D. limniace, put 

 in early, were still there, the latter having been more attacked than the 

 former, if indeed this Papilio had been touched at all. The D. chry- 

 sippus was untouched. At night, after the bird had gone to roost, I 

 examined the cage and found one D. limniace, the D. chrysippus and 

 P. demoleus uneaten ; the other butterflies were not to be found. 



December 2nd. — I removed from the Shama's cage, early, the three 

 butterflies (D. limniace and chrysippus, P. demoleus) left overnight ; and 



