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the Caiira River. These skins were collected by Mr. E. Andre, and are of much 

 interest, provinfr, as the)- do, together with those from Mr. Klages, that the ornis 

 of the Canra Hiver difters to a certain extent from that of the Orinoco Valley. 



Unfortunately, liowever, tlie far better part of Mr. Andre's collections, namely 

 that made above the rapids and falls of Para, on the upjier Merevari and on the 

 grand isolated mass of Mt. Ameha, has been lost. 



All the collectors were more or less unlucky. Mr. Cherrie and his wife 

 suffered severely from fever, for which the Orinoco has a very bad rejmtation, and 

 both he and Mr. Klajjes were considerably troubled, and liad many losses and 

 annoyances from some of the endless revolutions for which Venezuela is so notorious. 

 Mr. Andre, through a serious accident in the rapids, lost the important collections 

 of birds, plants and minerals from Mt. Ameha, jihotngraphs, notes awl provisions, 

 and very narrowly escaped starvation. 



A short resume of the results of the study of these collections will be given 

 at the end. 



1. Tardus gymnophthalmus Cab. 



Turdtu rjynuiophlhalmu.' Cab. in Srhomh. /irise Brit. Guiana iii. (1848) p. S6.5 (ex La Guaira, 

 Caracas, Cayenne). 



(Jaicara : February, March, May. " Iris chestnut. Feet smoke-grey. Bill dusky 

 olive buff with light edges. Bare skin around eye citron-yellow " (Cherrie). 



Quiribana de Caicara : April (C;herrie). Altagracia : January (Cherrie). 

 Maipures : December (Cherrie). 



(Nos. 8555, 0843, ln255, li)25(i, 10257, 102.58, 10259, 10284, lo204, 10200, 

 10207, 10298, 10290, lii30ii, 10341, Io5fi2, 10603, 1143(5, 12295 Cherrie coll.) 



Ciudad Bolivar : June, December. " Iris mahogany red. Feet light grey, toes 

 slightly tinged with red. Bill light yellowish green at base, shading off into 

 the pale vellow colour of the tip. Bare skin around eyes light greenish yellow " 

 (Klages).' 



A nest with two eggs was found by Cherrie at Caicara on May 10, 1808, on 

 a horizontal branch of a tree, six feet from the ground, in dense undergrowth. It 

 resembles a small blackbird's nest, the cup measuring only 9 to 10 cm. across, and 

 being 5 cm. deep. It is lined with coarse routlets. The eggs are indistinguishable 

 from small examples of a certain very common variety of eggs of Tardus pilaris, 

 being light greenish blue with reddish brown patches and some underlying mauve 

 spots. They measure 30 by 20-2 and 29-5 by 20-8 mm. 



2. Turdus albiventer Spix. 



Turditt alhivejiter Spix, Av. Bras. i. (1824) p. 70 (ex prov. Minas Geraes and Para). 



Caicara : February, March. " Iris vandyke-brown. Feet smoke-grey. Bill 

 mouse-grey with yellowish edges " (Cherrie). 



Altagracia : January, February, December (Cherrie). 



(Nos. 8673, 8985, 9763, 9797, 9986, 10104, 10128, 10129, lii251, 10252, 10253, 

 10254, 10291, 10292, 10293, 10339, 10357, 10394, 10818 Cherrie coll.) 



Ciudad Bolivar : August, November, December (Klages). " Iris dark yellowish 

 orange. Feet grey. Bill brownish black with a marginal line of yellow-grey,"' 



