Lepidoptera (caterpillars) are, next to Hymenoptera, the favorite insect food. They were eaten in goodly quantities in every month except October. The average for the season is 11.91 per cent. Grasshoppers appear to some extent in every month except April, the greatest consumption taking place in October (24 per cent), but as only small numbers are eaten in the earlier months the aggregate for the year is only 4.91 per cent. A few other insects of various orders amount to 0.98 per cent. Spiders (6.34 per cent) are eaten regularly and constantly through the season, except that none were taken in October. A few sowbugs, snails, etc. (2.70 per cent), complete the quota of animal food. Following is a list of insects identified and the number of stomachs in which found:
_Elaphrus ruscarius_ 1 _Anisodactylus harrisi_ 1 _Anisodactylus_ sp 1 _Pterostichus lucublandus_ 1 _Hydrobius fuscipes_ 1 _Ips fasciata_ 1 _Byrrhus murinus_ 1 _Dolopius lateralis_ 2 _Limonius æger_ 1 _Corymbites cylindriformis_ 1 _Corymbites spinosus_ 1 _Corymbites tarsalis_ 1 _Corymbites hieroglyphicus_ 1 _Podabrus flavicollis_ 1 _Telephorus bilineatus_ 2 _Telephorus_ sp 1 _Onthophagus_ sp 2 _Atænius cognatus_ 1 _Aphodius_ sp 3 _Dichelonycha_ sp 2 _Serica sericea_ 1 _Lachnosterna hirticula_ 1 _Lachnosterna_ sp 13 _Chrysomela pulchra_ 3 _Chlamys plicata_ 1 _Typophorus canellus_ 1 _Graphops simplex_ 1 _Graphops_ sp 1 _Calligrapha philadelphica_ 1 _Œdionychis quercata_ 1 _Microrhopala vittata_ 1 _Hormorus undulatus_ 1 _Phyxelis rigidus_ 1 _Otiorhynchus ovatus_ 1 _Neoptochus adspersus_ 1 _Cercopeus chrysorrhœus_ 2 _Barypithes pellucidus_ 2 _Sitones_ sp 2 _Phytonomus nigrirostris_ 2 _Conotrachelus nenuphar_ 1 _Conotrachelus posticatus_ 1 _Tyloderma_ sp 1 _Monarthrum mali_ 1 _Xyloteres politus_ 1
_Vegetable food._--The vegetable portion of the food of the species is made up of fruit, with a few seeds and a little miscellaneous matter more or less accidental. Fruit collectively amounts to 35.30 per cent, of which 12.14 per cent was thought to be of cultivated varieties and so recorded, while the remainder, 23.16 per cent, was quite certainly of wild species. This percentage of cultivated fruit is more than three times the record of the wood thrush, while the wild fruit eaten is correspondingly less, as the sum total of the fruit consumed is very nearly the same with both birds. From this percentage of domestic fruit one might infer that the veery was, or might be, a serious menace to fruit growing, but no such complaints have been heard, and it is probable that the species is not numerous enough to damage cultivated crops. A close inspection, however, of the fruit eating of the veery removes all doubts. The cultivated fruit, so called, was in every case either strawberries or _Rubus_ fruits, i. e., blackberries or raspberries, and as both of these grow wild and in abundance wherever the veery spends its summer, it is probable that all of the fruit eaten was taken from wild plants, though 12.14 per cent has been conventionally recorded as cultivated.