(4) 



Length of white tip to ontermost tail-feather 44 to 39 mm. 



Compared with specimens from British (iuiaua and with a skin from Snrinam 

 (in Mns. H. v. B.), the Orinoco birds ditfer in the following particulars : The npper 

 parts are of a mnch clearer grey, or of a much less brownish tint, the white apical 

 portions of the outer tail-feathers are longer and the bills shorter and weaker. 



The type of M. melanopterus Lawr. might have come from the coast region of 

 Venezuela. In that case Orinoco skins ought to be compared with examples of that 

 special country. Specimens from Cuiuana have bills of various length, and in that 

 respect are often similar to exami)Ics of il. gilvus roxtrntus from C'nrafuo which 

 nevertheless show the upper parts always of a darker tint. 



7. Donacobius atricapillus (L.). 



Turdus atriropillus, Linn., Si/nt. Nat. ed. xii., I. (17(5ti) p. 295 (ex Brieaon, hab. Cap. bon. spei — 

 errore. We substitute Eastern Brazil.) 



Mato River: J ? 3, 7. iii. ICon. "Iris light yellow orange, feet grey, bill 

 black." (S. M. Klages). 



The male has two white-tipi)e(l feathers on each side benind the upper ear- 

 coverts. There is also in the Tring Museum a sjiccimen with indications of a 

 white line behind the eye from Venezuela, and one with an incomplete white streak 

 from Peru, another said to be from Bahia. This would indicate that JK (dhorittatus 

 Lafr. & d'Orb. (from Bolivia) is merely a subspecies. 



S. Campylorhynchus griseus (Swains.). 



Funiiirins ijrisens Swainson, Anim. in Menag. (1838) p. 3"25 (Savannahs of Guiana) 



Altagracia : <? 17. vi., S 23. xi., '''Z. xi., ? (i. xii., S S. xii., <? ? 22. xii., ? i). xi., 

 cJ? 25. xi., ? 22. xii., ? 1(». i. 



Caicara: S 28. ii., c? ? 27. vi., nest and eggs. "Iris vandyko-brown (seal); 

 feat slaty ; bill black above, jiaie below." 



(Nos. 8542, S67(j, S7S4, SSOo, S846, 8847, yu54, 9055, 9096, 9307, 9355, 9356, 

 9357, 9358, 9609, 10300, 10305, 10306, 10977, 10978 Cherrie coll.) 



Swainson's original description leaves no doubt that the birds which are named 

 bicolor in the British Museum (from Guiana) are his c/riseus and not those called 

 griseus in that Museum. Our birds from the Orinoco agree perfectly with those 

 from Guiana in the British Museum, there erroneously named bicolor. 



Mr. Cherrie writes: "A nest was taken {S and ? shot) at Caicara on 

 June 27. Both parents were mnch excited and scolded me soundly. The nest was, 

 as usual, old and (lilaj)idated, while a now nest was witliin four inches on the same 

 small tree. The nest was only abont eight inches above the ground. The eggs 

 were incubated." The eggs, five in number, are of a glossy brownish brick-red, 

 darker spots being traceable. Others are whitish red, the brick-red j)atches leaving 

 some of the ground-colour free. They measure: 24o by I8v"), 245 by 174, 

 24 by 17-5 mm. 



Another nest was found on April 10. It is a large loose oval structure, about 

 26 cm. long, with the entrance laterally near the top, as in our wren's nest, and 

 composed of dry grass, The three eggs ave similar to tliose described above. 



