( 30) 



A nest, containing; throe eg:!?s, one fresh, two hcavilj- incubated, was taken on 

 August (j. One of tlie eggs got broken. The nest was set loosely in the tangle 

 of twigs and vines, placed over the water, about eight feet above the surface. It 

 is a shallow mp of dry twigs and rootlets, lined with fine smooth grass. The eggs 

 are uncommonly like those of onr Acrocephuliis stre/ier/ts, having a smooth almost 

 glossless greenish white shell, covered with blotches and small patches of greenish 

 brown, with a few underlying manve spots, and the markings being more freijuent 

 around the thick end. They measure 18'9 to 14-5 and 20-5 to 15 mm., the latter 

 being one of the two incubated eggs, the former smaller the fresh one. 



98. Coryphospingus pileatus (Wied). 



Fvinijillu pileata Wied, Reise Brasil. II. p. 160 (1821) (Brazil, southern part of prov. Bahia). 



Cindad Bolivar : c? ad. 3. xii., " ? " (? c? immat. — crest lighter red and not so 

 long as in S ad.) 3ii. \l, " ? " (? cJ) 15. vi. (worn), '• ? " (without red on pileum) 

 ]."). vi. (Klages). 



'•'0. Gymnostinops yuracares ( Laf'r. A ( >rli.). 



Oisjiicus )/Kiacare>i Lafr. ft DOrb., .s;(n. Ai: II. p 2 in M:i<j. Ziml . VIII. ( 1838) (Yuracares, Bolivia). 



Snajiure : c?(? ? I'i. ii. " Iris brown ; feet black ; liill black : dark orange on 

 the ti]) ; crescent of bare skin at base of mandible lighter orange-grey, the other 

 naked skin lighter red-viulet, somewhat jjaler than I he standard shade " (Klages). 



Nicare : ? ad. 18. i. 1901 (E. Andre). 



These specimens agree with those in the British Museum, where Hartert has 

 compared them. The occurrence on tlio Canra Kiver is very interesting. 



li"i. Ostinops decumanus (Pall.). 



Xatithonms decmrumus Pall., ^itk\ Faac, VI. (17G9) p. 1 (Surinam). 



Mnuduapo : c? ad. 1'.*. iii., ? ad. 1:^. iii. 



Maipures : i ad. 11. 12. "Iris coeruloan bhic ; feet lilack ; bill snlphnr- 

 yellow." 



(Nos. 11431, 11IST4, 12189, 12191) Cherric coll.) 



li»l. Ostinops viridis (Mlill.). 



OrioluK niritlis Mullur, XatiirKijsl. (177li), Sujijil. p. .S7 (ex PL Enl. 328— Cayenne). 



Mato Kiver : ? ad. 5. iii. (Klages). 

 Nicare: ? is. i. I'.iol (E. Andre). 



1112. Cassicus albirostris (L.). 



Tiinngrii alhimxtris Linn., Mnn, Ail. Fviil. Prndr. (17li4) p. Ml (" America''*). 

 Cassiatii persicus (L.) Cttl. B. Brit. Mui. XI. p. 321. 

 Cossicus albirostris (L.) Berl. & Stolzm. P.Z.S. 1896 p. .353. 



Caicara : 3 S ad. Ifi, 17, 18, 23. Febrnary, c^cJ.jnv. 19. ii. 

 Altagracia : c? ? ad. 3, 24. December. 



("iudad Bolivar; S <S ad. 23, 27. December, S jnv. 24. vi. (Klages). "Iris 

 azure blue ; feet black ; bill pale sulphur-yellow." 



* We substitute " Surinam." 



