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was found. Even though the wings of the butterflies had 
been removed and the bodies crushed in swallowing, yet 
some characteristic part, as the head with the curled 
proboscis, or the peculiar legs or abdomen, would sometime^ 
have been recognized if they had frequently been present, 
at least when I was particularly looking for them. 
For its bearing on the point above mentioned, as well as 
for its more general interest, a summary of a count of the 
entries in my note-books during six years, of the different 
kinds of insects and similar small creatures found in birds* 
stomachs, is here given. Larvae of insects were not counted. 
Coleoptera were recognised and recorded in 213 stomachs ; 
Orthoptera in 1 77; Ants in 57 (mostly in stomachs of birds 
of the genus Dendromus) ; other Hymenoptera in 8 ; Cocci 
in 32 ; Rhynchota in 19 ; Termites in 31 ; Slugs and Snails 
in 21 ; Spiders in 85 (mostly stomachs of Sunbirds) ; Milli¬ 
pedes in 20 ; some other kinds of insects or small animals 
each in one or two stomachs; Butterflies in none ! 
Supplementary Note. 
Since writing the first part of this paper (see above, 
p. 479) I have had the great pleasure of a short visit to the 
Museum of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, where, 
with the very kind and cordial assistance of Mr. Witmer 
Stone, I was enabled to see the types of some of Cassin’s 
species. In the preceding pages appear the results of my 
examination of the types of Turdirostris fulvescens and 
Geocichla compsonota. But regarding two birds belonging 
to Part I. of this paper, which was then already in the press, 
I take this opportunity of reporting as follows:—- 
A comparison of one of my specimens of Alseonax olivas~ 
cens (see above, p. 522) with Cassin’s type leaves no doubt 
that it is identical with Cassin’s Parisoma olivascens. An 
examination of the type of Cassin’s Butalis epulaius like¬ 
wise shews that it is Sharpe’s Alseonax fantisiensis (see 
above, p. 521). 
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