158 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



A single specimen collected by Air. Klages at Suapiire on the 

 Caura River (/. c.) was sent to the Tring Museum. 



Cyclarhis gujanensis Flavipectus Sclater. 



Cyclarliis flavipectus Scl., P. Z. S. 1858. p. 448 (Trinidad) ; Berlepsch 



& Hartert, p. 13. 



Common. In life the eye is tawny ochraceous ; bill drab above, 

 plumbeous grey below ; feet vinaceous buff. 



On my first expedition to the Orinoco I found this species 

 breeding at the end of August. In 1907 I found a nest at La Cas- 

 cabel (near the mouth of the San Feliz on the Cuchivero River) on 

 the 23rd day of May. The nest was situated in a Chaparo oak that 

 stood near the edge of an extensive open savanna. It was placed at 

 the extreme tip of a long horizontal limb, about 4.5 m. from the 

 ground, suspended between forked twigs. For a pendant nest it was 

 unusually shallow; the walls thin, and it might be ■ described 

 almost as a net woven between the forks and sagging in the centre. 

 Outwardly it was composed entirely of soft grasses, and there was an 

 inner lining of a very few hair-like vegetable fibres. The attachment 

 to the supporting twigs was slight and frail-looking. The nest walls 

 were so thin and the meshes so open, that the eggs were visible when 

 looking from the ground through the bottom of the nest. The nest 

 cavity is oval in form and measures inside 7.2 by 6 cm., depth 1.6 cm.^ 

 The eggs, three in number, were fresh. They are ovate in form; white, 

 faintly washed with buffy pink and marked with blotches, spots and tiny 

 dots, varying in color from hazel brown to dark chestnut. The eggs 

 measure 22x16.5; 23x16.5 and 22.75x16.5 mm. respectively. The 

 male was shot as he left the nest; the female was not seen. 



HIRUNDINIDAE— THE MARTINS AND SWALLOWS. 



Seven species are included in Berlepsch and Hartert's paper on 

 the Birds of the Orinoco Region. The writer secured only five of the 

 species there listed but has since collected another species, one not 

 previously recorded from the region. All but the Barn Swallow are 

 probably resident species and three of the number have been found 

 breeding. Prague, Iridoprocne and DipJochelidorfi were the most com- 

 mon, the latter two verv abundant. 



'The nest found at Urbana, on the Orinoco, Aug. 28, 1898, measured inside 7 cm., depth 3.5 cm. 

 ^Ridgway, Birds of North and Middle America. III. 1904. p. 27. 



