204 THe Wirson BuLLerin—Nos. 76-77. 
of large grasshoppers, spiders, etc..—(Slavin and Godman.) 
“Western Ecuador. Dans l’estomac des chenille de lepi- 
doptre, et des morceaux de blatte.’—(Berlepsch and Tac- 
zanowski. ) 
“Gualequiza. Ecuador, male, fish scales, locusts, beetles and 
frogs.’ —(Sclater. ) 
“Making a specialty of the large caterpillars of the sphinx- 
emperor moths, such as the cecropia caterpillars so destructive 
to shade trees. This is one of the few birds that venture to 
attack these formidable-looking creatures.’—(Weed and 
Dearborn. ) 
The young are well cared for and fed with insects or 
small bits of flesh soon after leaving the shell. F. H. Car- 
penter found a full grown red squirrel in a nest of small 
young, Bristol Co., Mass., June 14, 1901; and my own notes 
read as follows: June 10, 1906, freshly killed meadow 
mouse, and small pellet of mouse hair; young & days old. 
July 2, 1907, frequent pellets the size of the end of my 
thumb, of mouse hair and some bones; also bits of crawfish 
and a decayed wood mouse under several layers of leaves; 
young 22 days old. July 1, 1906, no pellets but numerous 
tufts of mouse hair; young 29 days old. July 23, 1901, large 
ground mole freshly ‘killed, young 41 days old. 
“The stomachs of four birds examined, one had just eaten 
a part of a rabbit, one a red squirrel, one a snake, and the 
crop of the fourth was filled with bones of young birds taken 
fromthe nest. I have several times seen ‘this hawk catching 
grasshoppers, but never a mouse.”’—(Hardy.) 
Clark says: “This hawk [Buteo platypterus antillarum)] 
is a great plague to poultry raisers on St. Vincent, but on 
the other hand ‘it is. of use to the agriculturist, as it feeds 
largely on the mole-cricket, which, since the introduction of 
the ‘mongoose and the consequent ‘killing off of the large 
ground lizards, have increased to an alarming extent. I 
once took 18 of these insects from the stomach and crop of 
a single hawk.” i 
