William Thompson

“ This insectivorous food must have been a matter of choice to the honey buzzard, the bird being in the full vigour of its powers, and the district in which it was killed abounding with such birds, as, were they its natural or wished-for prey, it might have easily captured and destroyed. ”

“ On examination of the stomach, which was quite full, it was found to contain a few of the larva?, and some fragments of perfect coleopterous insects, several whitish-coloured hairy caterpillars, the pupae of a butterfly, and also of the the six-spot burnet-moth (Zygcena filipendulae) , together with some pieces of grass, which it is presumed were taken with the last-named insect, it being on the stalks of grass that the pupae of this species of Zygaena are chiefly found. ”