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part of the nest consists of coarse dead grass, weed stems, rootlets, 

 and a few dead leaves. Then comes the nest cavity built up of 

 rather fine rootlets and dead grasses mixed with mud, with an inner 

 lining of coarse rootlets. The inside of the nest measures 9 cm. in 

 diameter by 4 cm. in depth. Incubation was so far advanced in the 

 tw^o eggs taken with this nest that only one could be saved. The egg 

 is a pale greenish blue rather thickly speckled all over wath russet. 

 In addition spots of burnt umber are thickly mixed with the russet 

 about the larger end, and some underlying ecru-drab spots. This egg 

 measures 30 x 21.5 mm. 



Another nest collected at Caicara June 21, 1907. was taken inside 

 the village limits in a courtyard and not over 7 m. from the door of a 

 house where a large family of children were constantly passing back 

 and forth. This nest was about 3.5 m. from the ground at the base 

 of a large horizontal limb of a Guava tree. It resembled the first in 

 all essential features. The dimensions of this nest are : outside, depth 

 7 cm., diameter at rim 11.5 cm.; inside depth 4 cm., diameter 8.2 cm. 

 The outlines of this nest are not as symmetrical as the one in the pre- 

 vious description. Incubation had begun in the three eggs taken 

 with this nest. The eggs themselves are smaller than the one previ- 

 ously described and are more typically ovate in form ; they measure 

 29x19; 27.5x19.5 and 28.5x19.5 mm. respectively. The greenish 

 blue ground color is less clear, and in two of the set the markings are 

 much larger, and more thickly speckled over the surface, especially 

 about the larger end ; in the last of the set the specks and spots are 

 nearly uniformly distributed over the entire surface. 



In yet another set of three eggs, collected on the 20th of June, the 

 pattern of coloration dififers considerably from those described above. 

 In one of the three the greenish blue ground color has a yellowish or 

 buff wash ; the irregular small spots and dots of color are larger all 

 over the surface and very thickly massed about the larger end. In 

 the other two eggs the ground color is the same pale greenish blue but 

 the markings are confined entirely to the larger end. In one egg 

 these form a chestnut cap. the edges of which are broken into spots 

 and dots of chestnut overlying rufous. In the last egg the spots and 

 blotches of chestnut overlying others of rufous form a broad band 

 about the larger end. These eggs measure 27. x 19.5; 28.75x20.2; 

 28.5 X 20 mm., respectively. 



The nest from which these eggs were taken and from which the 



