174 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BUELETIN 2. 6. 



from September to February. Not observed on the lower Orinoco, 

 but Klages sent specimens from La Union and Suapure on the Caura 

 River to the American Museum. 



Tangara mexicana vieilloti (Sclater). 

 Calliste vieilloti ScL. P. Z. S. 1856. p. 257. 



Beebe secured specimens at Guanoco in the Orinoco Delta that 

 agreed exactly with examples from Trinidad. There is a long- stretch 

 of country between the heavily timbered country above the falls and 

 the equally heavily wooded region of the delta where no forms of 

 T. mexicana seem to be found. 



Tangara nigrocincta (Bonaparte). 

 Aglaia nigrocincta Bonap., P. Z. S. 1837. p. 121. 

 Calliste nigrocincta Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 20. 



The Tring Museum received specimens from Suapure and Nicare 

 on the Caura River, and it is reported by Berlepsch and Hartert. 

 Thraupis episcopiis nesophilus Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XXV. 



1912. 185. 



Thraupis episcopus nesophilus (Riley). 

 Tanagra cana Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 20, not Swains. 



Native name Aznlcjo. Abundant. Found in all sorts of locali- 

 ties but not common in heavy timber. 



The colors of fresh birds are : eye brown ; bill blackish aijove, slate 

 below ; feet slate color. 



On my first expedition to the Orinoco I took a nest and set of 

 eggs of this species, on April 13, 1898. This nest was in a small 

 scrub oak. about 6 m. from the ground. It was surrounded by a 

 tangle of small twigs, and almost completely concealed by green 

 leaves. The parent birds were very shy. The nest Avas thick- 

 walled, outwardly composed chiefly of leaf stems, and lined with fine 

 vegetable fibers and rootlets. The nest contained two eggs, both 

 much incubated, only one of which was preserved. The tgg is of a 

 "dirty flesh-color, all over thickly covered with liver-brown and 

 underlying pale purplish grey spots and patches, and measures 

 23.1 X 16.8 mm."^ 



"Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 20, through some error, insert the description of this nest and set of eggs under 

 the head of T. palmarum melunopleru. 



