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Coal-Titmouse (Parus ater, (Linn.). 



83. Male ; Aldford, Chester ; 22nd January, 1894. — 1 weevil 

 (Curculionidae) ; 1 cocoon of Ichneumon (Hymenoptera) ; 

 many eggs of a noctuid moth. 



84. ? Sex ; Aldford, Chester ; 23rd March, 1894. — Fragments 

 of Hymenopterous insect (? Braconidae) ; 1 halticid beetle 

 (? Thy amis) ; portions of 3 bud scales. 



85. ? Sex ; near Chester; 2nd June, 1898. — A ball-like 

 mass of woolly fibres practically filling the whole of the stomach, 

 intermixed with hairs, antennae and a few other fragments ; 

 Dipterous insects (Muscidae) and the jaws of a moth larva. 



86. ? Sex ; Chester ; $th November, 1901. — Numerous examples 

 of American blight (Schizoneura lanigera) ; 3 half-grown larvae 

 of the Cabbage moth [Mamestra brassicce) ; fragments of small 

 weevils (Curculionidae) ; 2 small hymenopterous insects 

 (Branconidae) ; 2 mussel scales (Mytilaspis pomorum). 



87. PSex; near Chester; 21st November, 1889. — Filled with 

 fragments of small weevils and other beetles. 



Summary. — 5 contained insects of injurious group ; 1, bene- 

 ficial group ; 3, indifferent group ; 1, 3 bud scales ; 1, wool. 



Field Notes. — 88. Seeds. — One seen feeding upon the seeds of 

 the marsh thistle (Cnicus palustris) at Crickleigh, near Gloucester, 

 August, 1905. At Up well, Cambs., during winter of i8yy-8, 

 this bird fed freely on the carcase of a dead dog, which was 

 suspended from a tree as food for other members of the Paridae. 



Blue Titmouse (Parus cceruleus, Linn.). 



89, 90. 1 Male, 1 Female ; Ince, Chester ; 22nd January, 

 1894. — Both examples contained many larvae of Dipterous 

 flies (Muscidae, &c.) fragments of bud scales. 



91. Female ; Cheshire ; 24th January, 1900. — 55 specimens 

 of the mussel scale (M. pomorum) with about an equal number 

 of wing cases of small weevils (Apion, &c.) ; many fragments of 

 wheat grains. 



92. Male ; Cheshire ; 24th January, 1900. — 1 mussel scale 

 (M. pomorum) ; quantities of bud scales ; fragments of small 

 beetles (weevils, &c). 



93. ? Sex; Aldford, Chester; 24th January, 1900. — Filled 

 with fragments of a hard black fungus. 



