428 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



A common and widely distributed bird, ranging from sea-level up 

 to 6,000 feet over all kinds of country, wherever some woodland is 

 present. The only apparently suitable locality where it was not re- 

 corded was Don Diego, where its absence was soon noticed, nor was a 

 single individual observed during a three weeks' stay. 



Mr. Smith sent in no less than eleven nests, with three to five eggs 

 each, collected at Bonda between April 5 and May 15. "The nests 

 are bulky structures of sticks and coarse twigs, lined with finer twigs, 

 placed in the fork of an upright branch. They are of the usual Jay 

 style of architecture, but differ much among themselves in the char- 

 acter of the materials utilized, some being constructed externally of 

 very coarse sticks, the largest of which have a diameter of 5 to 7 mm., 

 while others are built wholly of fine twigs, and thus are much smaller 

 and more artistic, with a breadth of about 9 inches, instead of 12 to 

 14 as in the nests of coarser material. In all the lining consists merely 

 of fine twigs. 



" Of the eleven sets of eggs, five have three eggs each, four have 

 four each, and two have five each. The number of eggs to the set is 

 thus exceptionally large for a bird of this region. The buffy white 

 ground-color is nearly concealed by spots and blotches of olive brown, 

 tinged more or less with grayish." 



Family VIREONID^. Vireos. 



390. Cyclarhis fiavipectus canticus Bangs. 



Cyclorhis fiavipectus Sclatek, Proc. Xool. Soc. London, 1858, 448, part 

 ("Santa Marta ")-^Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1861, 45 ("Santa Marta")- 

 — Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, 1866, 389 ("Santa Marta")- — Salvin and God- 

 man, Ibis, 1880, 119 (Valencia). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, I, 1883, 212 (" Santa Marta,'' in range).- — Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., VIII, 1883, 320 ("Santa Marta"; meas.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist.. II, 1889, 131, in text, ("Santa Marta"; crit.). 



Cyclarhis fiavipectus canticus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 

 142 ("Santa Marta"; orig. descr. ; type now in Mus. Comp. Z06I. ; meas.; 

 crit). — -Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 171 (Bonda; 

 crit.). — RiDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, III, 1904, 227 ("Santa 

 Marta"; diag. ; references), 231, footnote (meas.). — Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, S4i ("Santa Marta"; crit.). 



Cyclorhis fiavipectus var. cantica Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 475 (" Santa 

 Marta," in range ; ref. orig. descr.) . 



Cyclorhis canticus Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, IV, 1903, 257 (ref. orig. descr.; 

 range) . 



