682 BIRDS FEOM MAliCrAEITA— ROBINSON. vol.xviii. 



bed of tenacious blue miul. This valley contains a very extensive cocoa- 

 nut opove, with plantains growing beneatli the trees. In the mud at 

 the foot of these trees large blue crabs {Caydisoma f/uanhumi, Latreille) 

 have their burrows, and sit, like spiders, watching for prey. They 

 made oft" with two of tlie birds that I shot before I could reach them. 

 The little red squirrels (Scinrns (vstnani^ hnffmanni), the "arditos" of 

 the natives, are abundant here. I spent about two hours in this grove 

 with my buttertiy net and my gun, and ^\ as kept busy. Birds were 

 seen in every direction and in the greatest abundance; pigeons, doves, 

 parrakeets, flycatchers, caracara eagles, hawks, delicate little swallow- 

 tailed swifts [ranyptUa cai/ennrusis:'') flying high in the air, and no less 

 than eight difterent species of humming birds. The following is a very 

 imperfect list of my observations : 



1. SULA, sp. 



2. PELECANUS FUSCUS, Linnaeus. 



3. LEPTOTILA, sp. 



4. COLUMBIGALLINA PASSERINA ( Linnaeus). 



5. SCARDAFELLA, sp. 



6. CATH ARISTA ATRATA (Barfram). 



7. POLYBORUS CHERIWAY (Jacquinot). 



8. CONURUS, sp., probably C. /ERUGINOSUS. 



9. CROTOPHAGA ANI, Linnaeus. 



10. PANYPTILA CAYENNENSIS? 



IL GLAUCIS HIRSUTUS (Gmelin). 



12. PHiETHORNIS, sp. 



13. HYPUROPTILA BUFFONI (Lesson). 



11. FLORICOLA LONGIROSTRIS (Vieillot). 



15. AGYRTRIA VIRIDISSIMA (Lesson). 



16. AMAZILIA FELICIA (Lesson). 



17. CHLOROSTILBON CARIBB^EA, Lawrence. 



IX. HELEODYTES NUCHALIS (Cabanis).i 



The large wrens {Heleodytes nnchalh) were es])ecially abundant in 

 marshy thickets along the little stream. They were very voluble, and 

 were continually spluttering out a magnified edition of the bubbling- 

 song of our little marsh wren. Like our marsh wrens, they seem to 

 build surplus nests, for I found no less than six in one small bush. 

 The nests of cocoa palm liber, lined with hair and feathers, are covered 



'Fresh colors of a female collected are: Ivides yellowish wliite; legs light lead; 

 beak brownish above, flesh below. 



