ORNITFIOI.OfiKAI, DISCOVERIES 2;io 



take. Ultimately the rightful owner returned and was 

 secured. 



One egg liad (lisap|)eared. Tlie nest was vireo-like, 

 cup-shaped, suspended from the forked twigs. It was not 

 very firm, light showing through it everywliere. The mate- 

 rial was coarse grasses and tliin rootlets. Cobweb was used 

 where the nest was in contact with the twigs, and several 

 dead leaves were loosely attached with this material to tlie 

 outside of the nest. The diameters of the nest were, 70 mm. 

 outside, and 50 mm. inside; the depths, 50 mm. outside, and 

 40 inside. 



The t^i^(y measured 21 by 1.5. .5 mm. 'I'he ground color 

 was dull yellowish white, with numerous pale brown and lilac 

 markings, mostly linear, running lengthways, and more nu- 

 merous around the larger end. 



Two days later, on ]March 10, I sat down in a small 

 glade near the same animal trail. It was early morning and 

 the sun was not near its full strength. I listened to the chirps 

 of birds drinking at a black jungle creek near by, and 

 w^atched a hummingbird pick cobweb in the intervals of vio- 

 lent battle with another species. Then a female manakin 

 whirred past and I followed her as she fed on small berries 

 near the tops of some saplings. After fifteen minutes of 

 this fitful occu])ation she swoo])ed downward, straight to a 

 tiny nest wliich to this moment had been invisible to me. 

 Here, suspended from a slender fork just over a pool of 

 black water she brooded two eggs. 



A w^eek later the young birds hatched, and on ]March 

 20, I photographed and examined the three-days-old young. 

 One of them, a female, was reddish flesh color, with yellow . 

 gape and yellowish brown legs and feet. The eyes and the 

 upper surface of the w ings w^ere dark leaden. 



The down was sparse, long and whitish grey in color; 

 there was none on the hind leg, but a line of six, strong feath- 

 er sheaths with long down attached along the outer aspect of 



