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appeared, and afterwards T saw the bird eat part of the Junonia (I had 

 put in part I found outside). The other butterflies were not eaten for 

 some time, though they had been pecked, and the bird ate maggots 

 (which had been given) readily. It also greedily ate a green tree- 

 cricket. I put in another P. demoleus, and an hour or two later found one 

 of this species nearly intact, but w r ith much pecked wings, and part of 

 another, outside. I put them in, and the fragmentary one soon dis- 

 appeared. Of one D. eucharis also only a bit was left ; the others had 

 not been eaten. The bird had now no other food but these butterflies 

 and I put in a third A. phalantha. 



An hour or so after, the bird had apparently eaten only a bit of 

 one of the previously-given Atellas, and the bit of D. eucharis ; however 

 I now saw it attack the P. demoleus, and eat some, leaving only a little. 

 At roosting- time it had done no more. 



December 12th. — The state of things in the Starling's cage was 

 still the same. I found a piece of a butterfly outside, which I put in, 

 and saw there was another fragment inside too, one of which was part 

 of a P. demoleus, and the other might have been this or D. eucharis. I 

 took both out, and also the two Atellas, the Delias eucharis, Danais 

 qenutia, and Euplcea. Later, the bird being hungry, as there was no 

 food in the cage, I put in a D. genutia and two Junonias and an 

 Atella. The bird immediately devoured the two Junonias, and pecked 

 and rejected Atella. However, this butterfly soon disappeared, and I 

 put in another with a Papilio demoleus, D. limniace, and Euploea. 

 The bird picked out and swallowed the Atella, then pecked at the 

 P. demoleus, which it apparently ate, as I only found bits of wing. 

 Then, after pecking at a D. chrysippus, and perhaps at others, it swal- 

 lowed the Buploea. 



I then put in a Huphina phryne and four Junonia, all of which 

 the bird ate at once. It then shortly pecked and ate the D. lim- 

 niace, and by roosting-time both the D. genutia and D. chrysippus had also 

 disappeared. I have not noted when the last named was put in. 

 I then put food, green insects, into the cage. 



December 13th. The Starling in the morning, though not hungry, 

 ate the abdomen of a Papilio aristolochise from the Shama's cage. 



I put in two Danais chrysippus, and some time after they were 

 still uneaten, though one or both were minus heads ; when, however, 

 I put in a Junonia, the bird immediately ate it, though it had 

 plenty of green insects. These two D. chrysippus remained uneaten 

 all day in the Starling's cage. Next day by evening one had apparently 

 been eaten, the other not. The bird had both green insects and bread- 

 and-milk as food. 



