CHERRIE: ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ORINOCO REGION. I49 
PhEugopedius GRisEiPECTus CAURENsis ( Berlepsch & Hartert). 
Thryothorus griscipccliis caurcnsis Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. 
IX. 1902. p. 7. 
Described from specimens secured on tlie (7aura River by Mr. 
Eugene Andre. It has been recorded from La Union, La Pricion and 
Nicare (type locality). 
Troglodytes musculus cl.arls Berlepsch & Hartert. 
Troglodytes »uisch!iis clams Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 
1902, p. 8. (Type. Bartica Grove, British Guiana.) 
Common throughout the Orinoco region at least as far as the 
Falls of Atures. 
Specimens were collected at Ciudad Bolivar, .-Mtagracia, Caicara 
and Ouiribana de Caicara. 
In life the eye is seal brown; bill above blackish, below pale grey; 
feet dusky slate grey. 
A set of four slightly incubated eggs, together with the parent 
birds, were taken at Caicara, July 10, loco (15,078 Cherrie CijII.). 
The eggs are short ovate in form and measure 17.5x14; 16.9x13.5; 
17x13.75 and 17.5x13.6 mm. They are thickly dotted over the 
entire surface with brown varying in shade on the different examples 
from vinaceous to chestnut. In two of the eggs the specks and dots 
are more thickly clustered about the larger end, forming a cap. The 
ground color is a pale buffy pink. The nest was located in a natural 
cavity in the trunk of a Chaparo oak about 2.1 m. from the ground. 
Ver}' little nesting material had been taken into the tiest cavity, and 
consisted of a few black hair-like vegetable fibres on top of which was 
a lining of the wing and tail feathers of small birds so arranged that 
the quills stuck outward and upward around the edge of the nest, and 
the soft tips rested on the bottom. Here and there between the 
feathers were bits of the cast skin of some small lizard. 
The parent birds were shy and wary. The female when flushed 
would fly directly to a thicket some twenty-five yards distant where 
she would remain (juietly in hiding until she believed all danger to 
have passed. 
SYLVIIDAE— THE KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS. 
Only a single species pertaining to this family was observed on 
the Orinoco. 
