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of small feathers with an occasional bit of gray lichen. A nest before 

 me, collected on the I9th of May, measures inside 4.5 cm. in diameter 

 by i cm. in depth. I have never found more than two eggs in a nest. 

 In a set, taken April 2Qth at Quiribana de Caicara, they are short ovate 

 in form, pale bluish white in color marked with two sets of rather large 

 spots about the larger end. The underlying spots are cinereous, the 

 superimposed ones blackish brown. They measure 17.75 x 13.75 an d 

 18 x 14.2 mm. 



Nesting birds are very confiding. I have on several occasions 

 touched a brooding female before she would leave the nest. 



OCHTHORNIS LITTORALIS (Pelzeln). 



Blainea littoralis Pelz., Orn. Bras. 1868. pp. 108, 180. 

 Ochthornis littoralis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 35. 



Only one specimen observed, an adult female taken at Bichaco 

 midway between the mouth of the river Meta and the falls of Atures, 

 September 18, 1898. Specimens have been taken also on the Caura 

 River, at Suapure and La Pricion by Klages, and at Nicare by Andre. 



SlSOPYGIS ICTEROPHRYS (Vieillot). 



Muscicapa icterophrys Vieill., Nouv. Diet. XII. 1817. p. 458. 

 Sisopygis icterophrys Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 35. 



Only the single specimen, recorded by Berlepsh and Hartert, was 

 collected ; an adult female taken at Altagracia, September 19, 1898. Not 

 again observed. 



KNIPOLEGUS ORENOCENSIS Berlepsch. 



Cnipolegus orenocensis Berlepsch, Ibis. 1884. p. 433. PI. XII. (Angos- 

 tura) ; Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 35 (Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela). 

 The type of this species came from Ciudad Bolivar (Angostura), 

 where specimens were secured on the last Museum expedition, but it 

 was observed more frequently about Altagracia and at Caicara; it was 

 not noted beyond the mouth of the Meta River. 



A bird in Juvenal plumage taken at Agua Salada de Ciudad 

 Bolivar, April 1 3th, is a dark dusky olive brown above; the wings and 

 tail brownish black narrowly edged with pale brownish (raw umber) ; 

 greater and median wing-coverts tipped with raw umber brown; below 

 greyish hair brown, belly brownish or buffy brownish white. 



