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Summary. — Contained insects of the injurious and beneficial 

 groups. 



Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis (Linn.). 



179. Female;, Puffin Island, Anglesey; 4th June, 1895. — 

 1 Pill Beetle [Byrrhus pilula) ; many Click Beetles (Athous 

 haemorrhoidalis) ; 1 Blue-bottle Fly (Calliphora erythrocephala) . 



180-182. 3 Examples from stomach of Merlin (No. 608) ; 

 near Bala ; 25th July, 1896. — Fragments of Dipterous insects, 

 plant bugs (Hemiptera) and Ichneumons (Hymenoptera) . 



Summary. — 2 contained insects of the injurious group ; 

 1, beneficial; 4, indifferent group. 



Tree Pipit {Anthus trivialis (Linn.). 



183. Male; Aldford, Chester; i$th June, 1894. — Many 

 Dipterous flies (Tipulidae, &c.) ;. fragments of beetles (Hypera 

 nigrorostris and other weevils, &c). 



Summary. — Contained insects of the injurious and beneficial 

 groups. 



Rock Pipit [Anthus obscurus (Latham). 

 • 184. Male ; Colwyn Bay ; 12th January, 1894. — Equal pro- 

 portions of exceedingly minute fragments of vegetable matter 

 and beetles (Geodephaga and Rhynchophora) ; large grains of 

 sand and a few pebbles. 



Summary. — Contained insects of the injurious and beneficial 

 groups. 



Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio, Linn.). 

 185. Male ; Whitchurch, Salop ; 24th May, 1895. — Remains 

 of humble bee (Bombus sp. near terrestris) ; fragments of 

 beetle. 



186-190. 5 Nestlings, / Minera, Denbigh ; June, 1890. — 

 These had been fed extensively upon the rather rare red-tailed 

 humble bee [Bombus lapponicus), which occurs very commonly 

 in this district. The lower half of the nest was also lined with 

 the remains of this bee. Two other species of humble bee 

 [Bombus terrestris $ and Bombus sp. $ ) were found impaled 

 by these birds in the immediate neighbourhood of the nest. 



191. Fledged young ; Crickleigh, Gloucester ; August, 1901. — 

 Remains of " burial beetles " [Necrophorus humator and N. 

 mortuorum) . 



