1909] Beebe: Birds of Northeastern Venezuela. 103 



Tangara cana Swains. Blue-shouldered Tanager. 



These birds were common at Guanoco, both about the house 

 and at the edge of the forest along the track. A few were seen 

 along the Guarapiche. 



Tangara palmarum melanaptera Scl. Northern Palm 



Tanager. 



On April 5th three were seen in a dead tree back of the 

 house at Guanoco. These birds were tame and often came to the 

 very door-step, searching for insects. At five o'clock in the 

 afternoon of the same day a flock of about seventy-five went to 

 roost for the night in a dense foliaged vine climbing up a tall 

 dead tree in the center of the village. We found that this was 

 their regular custom every night. They called to one another 

 in sharp lisping tones, sounding like swaa-swee! 



Ramphocelus jacapa magnirostris (Lafr.). Northern Silver- 

 beaked Tanager. 



These tanagers were nesting and carrying grubs to their 

 young near our house at Guanoco early in April. One secured, 

 had been feeding on small insects. Two pairs were also nesting 

 near La Brea. 



Tachyphonus luctuosus Lafr. et D'Orb. White-shouldered 



Tanager. 



Common in small flocks all along the Rio Guarapiche, keep- 

 ing well up in the tops of the trees. They continually flirted 

 their wings, showing the white shoulders and under coverts. 

 The call was sweet and modulated like the call-note of a canary. 

 A male had its stomach filled with small termite workers. 



Tachyphonus rufus (Bodd.). White-lined Tanager. 



A pair of these birds was seen in the forest undergrowth 

 near Guanoco on April 4th when they were nesting. 



Phoenicothraupis rubra rubra (Vieill.). Cardinal Ant- 



tanager. 



A pair of these birds were carrying grasses near La Brea 

 on April 9th. A third bird was secured and had been feeding on 

 small termites. 



Schistochalmys atra (Gmel.) . Black-faced Gray Tanager. 



Three of these birds, all in adult plumage, were always to 

 be found in a certain patch of dense scrub at the edge of the 



