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of trees that lay as half submerged "snags." In 1907 I took a nest 
and set of eggs at Agua Salada de Ciudad Bolivar on the 13th of 
April. The nest was placed in a crevice between two huge boulders 
on the shore of the river and was about 1.5 m. above the level of the 
water. It was composed outwardly of fine rootlets and was lined 
with soft feathers. Five eggs were in the nest; two of them per- 
fectly fresh, two just on the point of hatching, and one blackened in 
color and with its contents dried down into one end of the egg shell. 
This last egg was probably from a previous nesting. In color, the 
eggs are pure white ; in form, short ovate, and measure 18 x 13.5 ; 17.5 
X 13.5 ; 17.25 X 13.5 and 17 x 13.25 mm., respectively. 
Both parent birds were present and evinced much solicitude for 
their home. Both were collected. They are in rather worn plum- 
age with scarcely a trace of the white tips and outer edges to the 
greater wing coverts, while the white edging to the outer web of the 
inner secondaries is very narrow. This pair of birds also seem 
unusually small, the male measuring: wing 98, tail 46 mm.: female, wing 
97, tail 47 mm. 
COEREBIDAE— THE HONEY-CREEPERS. 
Seven species were included in Berlepsch and Hartert's paper, of 
which number the writer met with only three (Dacnis cayana cayana, 
Cyanerpes caernlea cherriei and Coereba luteola) on the Orinoco proper. 
Two additional forms have been recorded from the region since the 
publication of the above mentioned paper, and it is probable that future 
collecting will increase the number by four or five more species already 
recorded from adjoining territory. 
Key to the Genera, Species .\nd Subspecies of Coerebidae. 
a. Bill abruptly hooked at tip Diglossa. ' 
a'. Bill not abruptly bent and hooked at tip. 
b, Superciliaries not white nor yellowish white. 
c. Bill longer than tarsus. 
d. Mandible yellow or yellowish Chtorophanes spiza spiza. 
d'. Bill black (both maxilla and mandible); males rich blue above 
and below; females green, or greenish, above; paler below and 
more or less streaked Cyanerpes. 
e. Adult males, with interscapulum black and throat blue like 
breast; females and immature males with under wing-coverts 
and inner edges of wing quills yellow Cyanerpes cyanea cyanea. 
^The only species of Diglossa at all likely to come into the region under consideration would be 
D. major from British Guiana (Roraima). 
