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many with hard shells, but others, the helixarions,! with softer chitinous shells. They 
had been eaten by eight of the birds. Slugs were fewer in number.? Ants were more 
frequently found than insects of any other order, but among the Orthoptera were 
noted some small brown grasshoppers with high, keeled backs, which are found 
among the dead leaves of the forest floor. 
“A summary of the animal food we found for Guttera p. schubotzi will show the 
abundance of mollusks: snails, 53%; slugs, 5; millipedes, 2; spider, 1; insects of 
various orders, 39. The vegetable food included seeds and small fruits, as well as 
leaves, the latter found only in one case. 
“Numida meleagris inermis Dubois. Ten adults were examined of this Guinea 
fowl. Small stones were commonly found in the gizzard, and the food most often 
observed was the native millet, Hleusine coracana. This grain was present in abun- 
dance in the crops of five birds. A variety of other vegetable substances is 
consumed, roots of the sweet potato, and various seeds. A millipede and insects of 
various orders, numbering over 40, were listed, as well as a half-dozen small snails. 
The snails had all been swallowed by a single bird. 
“Hexcalfactoria adansonii (Verreaux). The contents were noted of crop and 
stomach of eight individuals of the swamp quail. Every bird had eaten small seeds, 
and in five cases no other food was present. The three remaining birds had each eaten 
some insects, and one of them had taken a tiny snail. This quail usually inhabits 
far drier spots than its name would indicate. 
“‘Pternistes cranchi crancht (Leach). Examination of the crops of three bare- 
throated francolins from the Lower Congo showed that in each case the principal 
food had been small bulbs of a grass. In addition, however, one bird had eaten many 
termites, and another numbers of ants and one small snail. 
“Francolinus squamatus Cassin. The food of the brown woodland francolin 
consists in part of cultivated plants, such as sweet potatoes, and of rice; but many 
other seeds are eaten, as well as fruit, and so are snails, insects, and millipedes. In 
the crops and stomachs of 8 individuals, vegetable food predominated, but five birds 
had eaten from one to several small snails apiece. A few ants, a hemipter, a cater- 
pillar, and 2 millipedes completed the list of animal food. 
““Crecopsis agregia (Peters). One such crake, captured in a dry field at Ngayu, 
Ituri district, had eaten insects and many tiny snails. 
“ Sarothrura elegans reichenowi (Sharpe). From the examination of five stomachs 
of this rail, it appeared that insects were most commonly eaten, including termites 
and asmallroach. Small snails were also found in three stomachs. 
“Sarothrura pulchra centralis Neumann. Insects form the greater part of the 
food, as was found in examining seven stomachs; but small snails had been eaten in 
three cases, small frog bones were found twice, and earthworms once. This little, 
rufous-headed rail is more nearly aquatic than the preceding, feeding mostly near the 
banks of wooded streams. 
1Genus Helivarion and allies, of subfamily Helixarionine. 
_. ?The slugs eaten were probably largely of the family Vaginulide, though perhaps also of the Urocy- 
clide, which are found in the same region. 
*The snails found in crops of G. p. schubotzi at Avakubi (July 10, 1914) belonged to eleven species, 
among which the following could be identified: Nothapalus paucispira xanthophaes, Subulina pengensis, 
Pseudoglessula subfuscidula, P. cruda, Streptostele centralis, Marconia gaudioni, Gulella -polloneriana, 
Gonazxis cavallit ituriensis (immature), Trochozonites sp., Gulella sp., and Pseudopeas sp. [J. Bequaert]. 
