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writer, but two specimens were sent to the Triiig Museum by Klages 

 which were collected at Suapure on the Caura River. One of these 

 was identified by Berlepsch and Hartert as Elainea niacilvaini but 

 Hellmayr has shown it to belong to this species. 



SuBLEGATus GivABER Sclater & Salvin. 



SuUegatus glaber Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1868. p. 171. PI. XIII, fig. 2. 

 Suhlegatus hrevirostris glaber Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 45. (Ciudad 



Bolivar, Altagracia, Caicara, Orinoco, \'enezuela). 



An abundant species on the sparsely wooded savanna, from Ciu- 

 dad Bolivar as far as the mouth of the Apure. A nest and two eggs 

 were taken at Ouiribana de Caicara, April 15th (No. 1075 Coll. G. K. 

 and Stella M. Cherrie). In general characters the nest is similar 

 to nests of Pyroccphalus or Blaenia. A neat, compact, although 

 rather frail cup saddled on a horizontal limb usually at a fork where 

 a broader foundation is available. Short bits of thin dry bark and 

 plant stems, held together by cobwebs, form the body of the nest and 

 there is a lining of a few soft feathers. The inside measurements 

 are 5 cm. diameter, by 1.3 cm. in depth. The eggs are ovate in 

 form ; thickly marked with irregular seal brown spots that overlie 

 other spots of a pale lavender color, all on a ground color of bluish 

 white. In one egg the spots are pretty uniformly distributed over 

 the entire egg, in the other they are confined chiefly about the larger 

 end. The measurements are 17.5 x 13.5 and 17 x 13 mm. 



A nest which, together with a set of eggs and the female parent, 

 was taken at Agua Salada de Ciudad Bolivar, April 15th, was placed 

 on and between the forks near the tip of a horizontal branch of a scrub 

 oak, and only about 1.8 m. from the ground. The body of the nest 

 seems to be made up almost entirely of short bits of the thin paper- 

 like outer bark of the scrub oak, or guaramal; held together and 

 attached to the supporting branch by spiders' webs. There is a 

 scant lining of short pieces of fine wire-like, thin, dead grass stems, 

 a few bits of soft bark and more cobwebs. The nest is a shallow 

 open cup measuring 6.5 cm. outside diameter by 4.5 cm. inside and 

 only 2.5 cm. outside depth. Being constructed of the same sort of 

 bark as the supporting branch it is very inconspicuous. 



The parent bird sat so closely that my hand almost touched her 

 before she fluttered awav. Incubation was far adAanccd in the two 



