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448. ? Sex ; Flintshire ; 2nd December, 1904. — Partly filled 

 with small fish bones. 



449. ? Sex ; Cheshire ; 16th December, 1890. — Completely 

 filled with fish bones. 



450. ? Sex ; near Chester ; 18th December, 1904. — Filled with 

 small fish bones. 



451. ? Sex ; Flintshire ; 24th December, 1904. — Filled with 

 small fish bones. 



452. 2 ? Sex ; Flintshire ; ? date. — Both filled with minute 

 fish bones. 



Summary. — 1 contained insects of the beneficial group ; 18, 

 fish remains. 



r ^ Hoopoe (Upupa epops, Linn.). 



453. Male; Saltney, Chester; 29th August, 1906. — Stomach 

 completely filled with the skins of moth larvae, consisting of 

 17 small Noctuids, 15 large Noctuids of the Mamestrid type 

 t(possibly Mamestra brassiccz), and 2 Hepialid larvae (Swift 

 Moths) ; 1 large fragment of cinder. The contents of the 

 stomach of this bird were recorded* as the larvae of a species of 

 Tipula ("leather jackets "), which they much resembled until 

 they were restored in potash. 



Summary. — Contained insects of the injurious group only. 



Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus, Linn.). 



454. Female; near Chester; 15th April, 1895. — 4 weevils 

 (Sitones sulci frons and Sitones sp.) ; 1 Geodephagous beetle 

 (Pterostichus striola) ; 12 full-fed larvae of the Drinker Moth 

 (Cosmotriche potatoria) and fragments of others, ; 3 nearly full-fed 

 larvae of Lasiocampa quercus ; many fragments of Coleopterous 

 insects. 



455. P Sex ; Cheshire ; 2yth April, 1903. —Filled with a black 

 pulverised mass of spinose hairs, mandibles, thoracic sclerites, 

 &c., of a Lepidopterous larva ; evidently all of the same 

 species. The remains are unlike those of any British species, 

 and it is highly probable that they are of tropical origin. 

 There was also a piece of knotted string about 2 inches in 

 length, and a comparatively large, flat, waterworn fragment of 

 rock. 



* A. Newstead, Zoologist, 1906. 



