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of trees that lay as half submerged "snags." In 1907 I took a nest 

 and set of eggs at Agiia Salada de Ciudad Bolivar on the 13th of 

 April. The nest was placed in a crevice between two huge boulders 

 on the shore of the river and was about 1.5 m. above the level of the 

 water. It was composed outwardly of fine rootlets and was lined 

 with soft feathers. Five eggs were in the nest ; two of them per- 

 fectly fresh, two just on the point of hatching, and one blackened in 

 color and with its contents dried down into one end of the egg shell. 

 This last egg was probably from a previous nesting. In color, the 

 eggs are pure white; in form, short ovate, a,nd measure 18x13.5; 17.5 

 X 13.5 ; 17.25 X 13.5 and 17 x 13.25 mm., respectively. 



Both parent birds were present and evinced much solicitude for 

 their home. Both were collected. They are in rather worn plum- 

 age with scarcely a trace of the white tips and outer edges to the 

 greater wing coverts, while the white edging to the outer web of the 

 inner secondaries is very narrow. This pair of birds also seem 

 unusually small, the male measuring : wing 98, tail 46 mm. : female, wing 

 97, tail 47 mm. 



COEREBIDAE— THE HONEY-CREEPERS. 



Seven species were included in Berlepsch and Hartert's paper, of 

 which number the writer met with only three (Dacnis cayana cayana, 

 Cyanerpes caernlea cherriei and Coereha luteola) on the Orinoco proper. 

 Two additional forms have been recorded from the region since the 

 publication of the above mentioned paper, and it is probable that future 

 collecting will increase the number by four or five more species already 

 recorded from adjoining territory. 



Key to the Genera, Species and Subspecies of Coerebidae. 



a. Bill abruptly hooked at tip Diglossa. i 



a'. Bill not abruptly bent and hooked at tip. 

 6. Superciliaries not white nor yellowish white. 

 c. Bill longer than tarsus. 



d. Mandible yellow or yellowish Chlorophanes spiza spiza. 



d'. Bill black (both maxilla and mandible) ; males rich blue above 

 and below; females green, or greenish, above; paler below and 



more or less streaked ; ■ • Cyanerpes. 



e. Adult males, with interscapulum black and throat blue like 

 breast; females and immature males with under wing-coverts 

 and innar edges of wing quills yellow Cyanerpes cyanea cyanea. 



iThe only species of Diglossa at all likely to come into the region under consideration would be 

 D. major from British Guiana (Roraima). 



