Duellman (1951:338) recorded a black racer in Greene County, Ohio, swallowing a large garter snake (_Thamnophis sirtalis_). In Kentucky, Barbour (1950:104) recorded remains of an unidentified snake in one stomach. Many authors likewise have recorded food of the southern black racer (_C. c. priapus_). In Georgia, Wright and Bishop (1915:160) recorded finding 2 racerunners (_Cnemidophorus sexlineatus_), a skink (_Lygosoma laterale_), 4 green tree frogs (_Hyla cinerea_) and 1 pine woods tree frog (_H. femoralis_) in stomachs. They also stated that the toad (_Bufo lentiginosus_ [= _terrestris_]) was the most important article of food. Burt and Hoyle (1934:205) wrote that a racer from Rogers County, Oklahoma, had eaten an adult male collared lizard (_Crotaphytus collaris_). In Florida, Carr (1950:80) found one of these black racers eating a leopard frog (_Rana pipiens_). Hamilton and Pollack (1956:523) examined digestive tracts of 62 and found food in 57, comprising the following percentages by volume: _Lygosoma laterale_, 34.2; _Eumeces fasciatus_ and _E. egregius_, 11.3; _Cnemidophorus sexlineatus_, 8.8; _Sceloporus undulatus_, 3.5; undetermined lizard, 3.5; _Opheodrys aestivus_, 6.6; _Diadophis punctatus_, 3.1; _Storeria dekayi_, 1.6; _Coluber constrictor_, 1.8; _Heterodon platyrhinos_, 1.8; _Masticophis flagellum_, 1.8; _Rana_ sp., 5.3; _Hyla cinerea_, 1.8; _Hyla versicolor_, 1.8; _Peromyscus_, 1.8; undetermined rodent, 1.8; lepidopterous larva, 1.7. In southern Illinois in an intergrading population of racers intermediate between _C. c. priapus_ and _C. c. flaviventris_, Cagle (1942:188) examined several stomachs and found 1 chipmunk (_Tamias striatus_), 2 voles (_Microtus_ sp.), 2 mice (_Peromyscus_ sp.), 2 green snakes (_Opheodrys_ sp.), 1 water snake (_Natrix sipedon_) and grasshoppers. From this same population Klimstra (1959:212) examined 137 digestive tracts of which 115 contained food as follows: 194 locustids, 118 gryllids, 17 undetermined beetles, 13 carabids, 6 scarabaeids, 10 lepidopterans, 9 hemipterans, 1 hymenopteran, 2 homopterans, 1 dipteran, 17 undetermined insects, 73 _Peromyscus_ sp., 19 _Microtus ochrogaster_, 9 _M. pinetorum_, 12 _Sylvilagus floridanus_, 3 _Scalopus aquaticus_, 3 _Rattus norvegicus_, 4 _Mus musculus_, 2 _Tamias striatus_, 2 _Synaptomys cooperi_, 16 _Rana pipiens_, 8 _Acris crepitans_, 2 _Rana clamitans_, 2 _R. palustris_, 1 _R. catesbeiana_, 4 _Hyla crucifer_, 3 _Pseudacris nigrita_, 4 _Lampropeltis calligaster_, 4 _Sceloporus undulatus_, 4 _Chrysemys picta_, 1 _Heterodon platyrhinos_, 1 unidentified reptile, 4 _Sturnella magna_, 1 _Otocoris alpestris_, 4 unidentified birds. Percentages by volume of the various categories in this sample were: insects, 39.1; mammals, 32.9; amphibians, 10.8; reptiles, 8.3; birds, 6.3; miscellaneous, 2.6.