PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 161 
Brown Hawk (fF. Hislop, N.E. Queensland—‘‘small rats 
and mice’’); Cerchneis cenchroides (Vig. and Horsf.), 
Nankeen Kestrel (G. Savidge, Upper Clarence River—field 
mice and small birds; G. A. Keartland, Melbourne—mice) ; 
Ninox boobook (Lath.), Boobook Owl; Strix delicatula 
Gould (—Tyto alba delicatula), Delicate Owl; Hupodotis 
australis Gray, the Australian Bustard or Plains Turkey ; 
Gymnorhina tibicen (Lath.), Black-backed-Magpie; G. leu- 
conota Gray, White-backed Magpie; Cracticus destructor 
(Temm.), Butcher Bird; and Cracticus mgrigularis 
(Gould), Black-throated Butcher Bird. He also states 
(Vol. II, p. 359) that the food of Dacelo gigas, the Laugh- 
ine Jackass or Kookaburra, consists during spring and 
summer principally of lizards, rats, mice and small birds 
and insects. | 
D. Le Souef! refers to crowds of Magpies (Gymnorhina) 
following the plough and catching the mice in Victoria dur- 
ing the prevalence of mice in 1905. 
In a Bulletin, now in the press, of the Department of 
Agriculture of New South Wales, dealing with the food of 
native birds, Mr. C. T. Musson, of the Hawkesbury Agri- 
cultural College, gives the following instances of mice re- 
mains being found by him in birds’ stomachs:—EHlanus 
axillaris (lath.), Black-shouldered Kite (5 birds—2 mice 
in crop and 3 in stomach; stomach full of mice; 5 mice in 
stomach ; 4 mice in stomach; 2 mice and a lizard) ; Cerchneis 
cenchroides (V. and H.), Nankeen Kestrel (remains of 
mice) ; Ninox maculata V. and H., Spotted Owl (remains of 
mice) ; Corvus coronoides V. and H., Crow (3 birds—bones 
of mouse (?); scarabs and hair and bones of mice; maize, 
ete., egg shell, piece of bone, mouse hair) ; Corone australis 
Gld., Raven (2 birds—larva, pellet of mouse hair, feathers, 
vegetable matter; thin slices of potato, horse and cow (‘?) 
and mouse hairs, small bones). 
tLe Souef, Wild Life in Australia, p. 1382. 
K—May 1, 1918. 
