Aphelocoma coerulesens (Bosc)
Common name.—Florida jay.
Experimental prey.—Pycnoscelus surinamensis, U.S.A., Florida (Sanders, 1928).
Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus)
Common name.—Blue jay.
Experimental prey.—Diploptera punctata, U.S.A. (Eisner, 1958).
Eurycotis floridana, Neostylopyga rhombifolia, and Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Eisner, personal communication, 1958): E. floridana was only eaten after the odor of 2-hexenal, which was released by the insect on being attacked by the bird, had dissipated.
Family PARADISEIDAE
Paradisea papuana Bechstein
Experimental prey.—Cockroaches, Malaya and on shipboard (Wallace, 1869): Two adult males fed voraciously on rice, bananas, and cockroaches. Wallace collected cockroaches every night on board ship to feed the birds. "At Malta ... I got plenty of cockroaches from a bakehouse, and when I left, took with me several biscuit-tins full, as provision for the voyage home."