202 THE Wirson BULLETIN—NOs. 76-77. 
birds; its stomach, however, contained grasshoppers and fid- 
dler crabs. In a nest deserted by the lusty young, July 10, 
1900, I found pellets and other evidence of the forbidden food: 
(1) hair, skin and jaw of wood mouse, interscapulars of a 
young Flicker, (2) feathers of a young Wood Thrush; the 
nets also contained the rectrices of one or two young Flickers. 
Dr. Mearns found no trace of feathers or other evidence of 
its feeding upon birds i the numerous specimens dissected. 
Banks found three unfledged Thrushes in a specimen taken in 
New Brunswick, and Swift a small bird too decomposed to 
identity, in an Elmira, N. Y., bird. Chas. C. Richards of 
Norwich Conn.. notes that the Blue Jay, Oven—bird and other 
small birds do not mind this species in the least, and some- 
times nest almost under the tree cccupied by it, but never so 
near the Accipiters. 
(Buteo platypterus antillarum), Grenada, W. 1. “Lizards, 
rats. snakes, young birds, etc., and occasionally makes a 
raid on the poultry yard.”—( Wells.) 
St. Vincent, W. I. “In the stomachs of all specimens I 
examined I found the remains of lizards and snakes. The 
name by which this bird is known throughout the island 
(Chicken Hawk) led me to suppose that it was an enemy to 
chickens. I never observed it molesting poultry. A female 
was feeding on one of the enormous earth-worms common in 
those parts.’-—( Lister.) 
(B. p. riviert), Dominica, W. I. “ Eats lizards as well as 
small birds.”—(Ober.) 
“In several of the specimens taken, the stomach contained 
nothing but large caterpillars.’”—(Clark.) 
Returning to B. p. platypterus, Henshaw states that its 
bill of fare includes snakes, toads and frogs, but not many 
mice and very few birds of any sort; and Allen found por- 
tions of two or three garter snakes in a nest containing two 
young ready to fly on Tuly 22, 1898, in New Hampshire. J. 
H. Fleming informs me that one of the nesting birds of 
Emsdale, Ont., had a large garter snake on May 18, 1897; 
and Chas. C. Richards writes that in going to a patch of 
