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back dusky sepia brown, the feathers with greyish bases ; the longer 

 upper tail-coverts with blackish or brownish tips. 



ArundinicoIvA leucocephala (Linnaeus). 



P'lpra lencocephala L., Mus. Ad. Frid. II. Prod. 1764. p. 33. 

 Ariindinicola lencocephala Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 34. 



Less common than the preceding species, and like that species lives 

 near the water especially in grassy marshes with scattering clumps of 

 bushes and trees where it is as likely to be seen in the tree tops as 

 among the bushes. It is active and flycatcher-like in habits. 



Adult birds have the eye seal brown; bill black above, yellowish 

 below with the tip blackish; feet black. Young males resemble the 

 female. 



A just completed nest of this species was found at Caicara on the 

 19th of May. It was in the top of a small dead Morichc palm-tree 

 about 7.6 m. from the ground. Built of soft dry grasses, it was globular 

 in form and about 18 cm. in diameter, with a small round entrance hole 

 in the middle on one side. Unfortunately no eggs had been deposited 

 when I cut the palm. Close beside the birds' nest was a nest of wasps. 

 A second nest of Arundinicola lencocephala in process of construction 

 was placed in the upright forks of a low shrub that grew near the edge 

 of an extensive marsh. The nest was about 91.5 cm. from the ground, 

 just above the top of the long marsh grass surrounding the bushes. 



PyrocEphaeus rubinus saturatus Berlepsch & Hartert. 



Pyrocephalus rubinus saturatus Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 

 1902. p. 34 (Type, Altagracia, Orinoco River, Venezuela). 



Native name Sangre de Toro. Common, frequenting the clumps 

 of trees in open savanna regions. 



In the neighborhood of Caicara I found ma,ny nests- of this species. 

 They were usually in scrub oak from 1.52 m. to 3.5 m. from the ground, 

 nearly always at forks well away from the body of the tree, and usually 

 on one of the larger lower limbs. In no instance have I found them 

 in any way concealed by surrounding leaves. The nests are neatly 

 rounded, shallow cups set loosely in the forks of the supporting limbs. 

 The materials used are rather short bits of dead grass, weed-stems 

 and twigs, all presenting a brownish gray color in close harmony with 

 the grayish bark of the supporting branches. There is an inside lining 



