158 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
A single specimen collected by Mr. Klages at Suapnre on the 
Caura River (/. c.) was sent to the Trine IMnseum. 
CvcLARHis GUjANENsis FLAViPECTus Sclater. 
Cyclarhis flavipcctHS ScL, P. Z. S. 1858. p. 448 (Trinidad) ; Berlepsch 
& Hartert, p. 13. 
Common. In life the eye is tawny ochraceous ; bill drab above, 
plumbeous grey below ; feet vinaceous bufi". 
On my first expedition to the Orinoco I found this species 
breeding at the end of August. In 1907 T found a nest at La Cas- 
cabel (near the mouth of the San Feliz on the Cuchivero River) on 
the 23rd day of May. The nest was situated in a Chaparo oak that 
stood near the edge of an extensive open savanna. It was placed at 
the extreme tip of a long horizontal limb, about 4.5 m. from the 
ground, suspended between forked twigs. For a pendant nest it was 
unusually shallow; the walls thin, and it might be described 
almost as a net woven between the forks and sagging in the centre. 
Outwardly it was composed entirely of soft grasses, and there was an 
inner lining of a very few hair-like vegetable fibres. The attachment 
to the supporting twigs was slight and frail-looking. The nest walls 
were so thin and the meshes so open, that the eggs were visible when 
looking from the ground through the bottom of the nest. The nt-st 
cavity is oval in form and measures inside 7.2 by 6 cm., depth 1.6 cm.' 
The eggs, three in number, were fresh. They are ovate in form; white, 
faintly washed with buffy pink and marked with blotches, spots and tiny 
dots, varying in color from hazel brown to dark chestnut. The eggs 
measure 22x16.5; 23x16.5 and 22.75x16.5 mm. respectively. The 
male was shot as he left the nest : the female was not seen. 
HIRUNDINIDAE— THE MARTIXS AXD SWALLOWS. 
Seven species are included in Berlepsch and Hartert's paper on 
the Birds of the Orinoco Region. The writer secured only five of the 
species there listed but has since collected amither species, one not 
previously recorded from the region. All but the Barn Swallow are 
probably resident species and three of the number have been found 
breeding. Prognc, Iridoprocnc and Dip!ocln-Iiilo)i- were the most com- 
mon, the latter two verv abundant. 
