Birds Feeding on Hairy Caterpillars. — In the July Auk, A. W. 
Perrior, of Syracuse, N. Y., in a note on the ‘Food of the Robin,’ 
expresses surprise at seeing the Robin feeding the larvae of Clisioca?npa 
americana to her young, saying that this is the first instance he has 
known of any bird feeding on them except the Cuckoo. From my own 
experience I can testify that the Baltimore Oriole eats them also. I have 
no doubt that a little observation would give us a long list of birds which 
eat them, judging from the list which has been found to eat Clisiocampa 
disstria , a caterpillar about as hairy as C. americana. While in Brandon, 
Vt., for a short time this spring, I saw the larvae of the latter eaten by 
Baltimore Orioles, Red-winged Blackbirds, White-breasted Nuthatches, 
Chipping Sparrows, Robins and Red Crossbills; and this list is extended 
to no less than twenty-four species by the observations of Miss Caroline 
G. Soule, who is working on C. disstria at that place. Besides those given 
above, her list includes Tanagers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Cedarbirds, 
both Cuckoos, Bluebirds, Flickers, Warbling, Red-eyed, White-eyed and 
Yellow-throated Vireos, American Goldfinches, Catbirds and Yellow 
Warblers, as well as Kingbirds, Phoebes, Great-crested Flycatchers and 
Chebecs. The Flycatchers darted upon the caterpillars as they swung 
suspended by their webs or fed on pendant leaves. — Mary Mann 
Miller, Brooklyn , N. Y. Auk, XV I, Oct. , 1899, p. 36 Z. 
