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Corn Bunting (Emberiza miliaria, Linn.). 



313. ? Sex ; Ince, Chester ; 24th December, 1889. — 

 Germinated wheat ; pebbles. 



Jay (Garrulus glandarius (Linn.). 



314. ? Sex ; Eaton, Chester ; 4th February, 1890. — Filled 

 with acorns divested of the shells. 



315. ? Sex ; Cheshire; 4th February, 1890. — Filled with 

 acorns divested of the shells. 



316. Male ; Whitchurch, Salop ; 15th February, 1895. — 

 Filled with acorns divested of the shells ; bones of a small 

 mammal (? mouse or vole). 



317. ? Sex ; Cheshire ; April, 1906. — Filled with equal 

 proportions of wheat (no husks) and oat glumes ; mixed with 

 the remains of a large Geodephagous beetle. 



318. ? Sex ; Cheshire ; April, 1906. — Filled with grass, 

 mixed with the remains of 1 dung beetle (Geotrupes sterco- 

 rarius). 



319. ? Sex ; Cheshire ; April 25th, 1908. — Completely filled 

 with the remains of click beetles or ( ' skipjacks " (Agriotes 

 obscurus) the thoraces of 127 specimens being intact ; 

 1 Geodephagous beetle (Pterostichus versicolor). 



320. ? Sex ; Cheshire ; 25th April, 1906. — Filled with equal 

 proportions of acorns (without shells) and oat glumes, mixed 

 with many pebbles. 



321. Male; Eaton, Chester; 23rd May, 1895. — Partly filled 

 with pieces of potato ; many skins of moth larvae (Noctuids and 

 Geometrids) ; 3 fragments of egg shell of ? mallard ; fragments 

 of brick. 



322. Female ; Eaton, Chester ; 23rd May, 1895 (shot while 

 sitting on her eggs). — Over 120 larvae of the winter moth (Chei- 

 matobia brumata) ; 2 cockchafers (Melolontha vulgaris), the 

 head and thorax of which had been rejected ; many fragments 

 of egg shell of Pheasant, bearing traces of blood vessels (? taken 

 in lieu of pebbles) ; fragments of brick ; fragments of leaves. • 



323. Female ; Delamere, Cheshire ; 28th May, 1901. — 

 Remains of 4 cockchafers (Melolontha vulgaris) ;' 1 dung 

 beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius) ; many pebbles. 



324. Male ; Delamere, Cheshire ; 28th May, 1901. — Stomach 

 almost filled with the larvae of the large Emerald Moth - (Geo- 



