240 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



A second set of three badly incubated eggs, taken on the same 

 date, are similar in color and markings, and measure 28.3x20; 30.8 

 x 20 and 29 x 19.8. 



In a set of four fresh eggs, taken May 4th, there are many large 

 irregular spots in the markings which are clustered on the larger end. 

 These eggs measure 28.2 x 19.5 ; 27.5 x 20; 27.7 x 19 and 27.1 x 19.7 mm. 



In the same tree with the nest containing the last set of eggs 

 above described, were nests of Icterus, Myiosetetes and Legatus, and it 

 was the rule rather than the exception to find nests of the present species 

 and those of Icterus xanthornus not far from one another in the same 

 tree. 



PlTANGUS SULPHURATUS TRINITATIS Hellmayr. 



Pitangus sulphuratus trinitatis Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., XIII. 1906. p. 24. 

 (Type " 5 ", Coparo, Trinidad.) 



This form of P. sulphurattts was found at Las Barrancas ; P. s. rufi- 

 pennis is found throughout the dryer savanna regions of the middle 

 Orinoco and is probably replaced in the entire delta region by trinitatis. 



PITANGUS UCTOR (Lichtenstein). 



Lanius lictor Licht, Verz. Doubl. 1823. p. 49. 

 Pitangus lictor Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 48. 



Birds of this species were found frequenting the edges of the nar- 

 row belts of timber bordering the watercourses that cross the open 

 savannas. 



Eye seal brown; bill black; feet slate black. 



MYIODYNASTES MACULATUS MACULATUS (Miiller). 



Muscicapa maculata Miiller, Natursyst. Supplement, 1776. p. 169. 



("Cayenne"). 

 Myiodynastes audax Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 48. (Caicara and Quiri- 



bana de Caicara, Orinoco and Suapure, Caura River, Venezuela.) 



This species was observed from Ciudad Bolivar up as far as Cai- 

 cara. It was not observed in heavily wooded districts. 



An immature male collected June loth differs from the adult only 

 in the absence of a concealed yellow crest. 



In adults the eye is seal brown; bill black, pale at base of the 

 mandible ; feet slate color. 



