NOTES ON THE GIZZARD CONTENTS OF BIRDS. I49 
(a) York, x. 76. Geotrupes. 
(0) York, x1. 77, Greenfinch. 
29. HoNEyY Buzzarp (Pernis apivorus). Insects, chiefly 
grasshoppers. 
30. KersTREL (Falco tinnunculus). Pellets. 
(a) Beeding Chalk Pit, Sussex, 29 Iv. 79. Vole skull 
and fur. 
(0) Beeding Chalk Pit, 12 v. 79. Bony plates, rounded 
scales, vertebre, etc., of slow worm, with about 
$ inch of unbroken body. Fur of vole, mouse, 
bat in a large lump. The small powdery lumps 
are chiefly composed of the jointed hairs of bats. 
Thick hairs of rat? The iridescent blue and 
green elytra of beetles present in abundance. 
Short, pointed hairs of beetle (?) abundant. A 
small lizard, with one foot showing 5 toes, with 
long claws. 2 vole skulls. r mammal tail. I rat 
skull. 2 bird skulls. 
31. HERON (Ardea cinerea). 
(a) York, x. 77. A very large number of small larve 
of Dytiscus beetle. 1 Water Boatman. Fur of 
shrew. 
Pome ore ext, 77. Hrog. 
(c) Chelmsford, 1.78. A mature Dytiscus. Frog. 
32. BRENT GOOSE (Bernicla brenta). Chignal, 14 xX. 79. 
Leaves of a vascular plant in quantities of sand. 
33. MALLARD (Anas boscas). Chelmsford, I. 78. Frog 
bones. Earth and small stones. 
34. GOLDEN EYE (Clangula glaucion). Battles Bridge, 
1. 82. Cyclas cornea (Two entire shells and many fragments). 
35. STOCK DovE (Columba enas). 
(a) Saddlescombe, v. 78. Crop crammed with ger- 
minating seeds of Vicia sativa. 
(6) Chelmsford, 26 x11. 78. Crop crammed with corn. 
A few of its own feathers. 
36. TurtTLE Dove (Zurtur communis). Saddlescombe, 
v.78. <A large number of the germinating seeds of Vicia sativa. 
37. COMMON PARTRIDGE (Perdix cinerea). 
(a) Chelmsford, 111. 78. Leaves. 
