138 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
Three fresh eggs and a nest were taken at Caicara, June 6, 1905. 
This nest was only about 1.2 m. from the ground in the forks of 
a sapling. These eggs have the same ground color as that described 
above, but two of them are so thickly marked with small spots and 
specks of rufous and chestnut as to remind one of eggs of the Brown 
Thrasher {Toxostoma nifiiin). The remaining egg is marked less thickly 
and with larger spots of varying shades of color from rufous to chestnut 
overlying pale ecru-drab spotting. The eggs are all ovate. They measure 
26 X 20 mm. ; 27 x 21 mm. and 28 x 21 mm. 
Another nest collected on May 22nd. at Caicara is rather unusual, 
being less bulky than is the rule, and constructed almost entirely of 
the long fine rootlets that spring from about the trunks and larger 
branches of some of the trees of the genus Ficus. Only a very 
little mud is used in the structure. There is a lining of larger root- 
lets as in the ordinary nest. The inside measurements of the nest 
are 8.5 cm. in diameter by 4 cm. in depth. The three eggs taken 
with this nest, as is the case with those described above, show much 
individual variation. They average smaller, measuring 19x24; 19 x 
25 and 18x23.5 mm. 
A nest with four fresh eggs (Xo. 145 1 Brooklyn ^luseum Collec- 
tion) collected at Agua Salada de Ciudad Bolivar, April 15, 1907, was 
unusual in that no mud had been employed in its construction. It 
was located in a niche, 2.4 m. up, in the side of a huge boulder that 
was surrounded by low trees and tangled bushes of the savanna. 
That mud had not been used in the building of this nest was prob- 
ably due to the fact that it could not have been obtained within a dis- 
tance of less than two miles : the dry season was at its height, and 
the savanna on all sides was parched and dry. This nest was placed 
so closely against the wall of rock that at its back only the thickness 
of the inner lining of rootlets interveneil between them. Parallel 
with the face of the rock the base of the nest measured 24 cm. : at right 
angles to the face 18 cm. : the outside deptli was 7.5 cm. The nest 
cavity measures 9 cm. diameter by 4.5 cm. in depth, — almost a per- 
fect hemisphere. The body of the nest is made up of \ery tine bits 
of grass and plant stems, strips of soft inner bark, dead leaves, etc. 
Of the four eggs taken with this nest two are thickly marked with 
small spots and specks '(chiefly pale rufous) nearly evenly distributed 
over the entire surface. The other two are marked with much larger 
