174 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE ilUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
from September to February. Not observed on the lower Orinoco, 
but Klages sent specimens from La Union and Suapure on the Caura 
River to the American Aluseuni. 
Tangara mexicana vieilloti (Sclater). 
Calliste vieilloti ScL. P. Z. S. 1856. p. 257. 
Beebe secured specimens at Guanoco in the Orinoco Deha that 
agreed exactly with examples from Trinidad. There is a long stretch 
of country between the heavily timbered country above the falls and 
the equally heavily wooded region of the delta where no forms of 
7". mexicana seem to be found. 
Taxgara nigrocincta (Bonaparte). 
Aylaia nigrocincta Bonap., I\ Z. S. 1837. p. 121. 
Calliste nigrocincta Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 20. 
The Tring Museum received specimens from Suapure and Nicare 
on the Caura River, and it is reported by Berlepsch and Hartert. 
Thratipis episcopus ncsophilus Riley, Proc. Biol. See. Wash. XXV. 
1912. 185. 
Thraupis episcoi'us xE-SOPhilus (Riley). 
Tanagra cana Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 20, not Swains. 
Native name Aznlejo. Abundant. Found in all sorts of locali- 
ties but not common in heavy timber. 
The colors of fresh birds are: eye brown; bill blackish above, slate 
below ; feet slate color. 
On my first expedition to the Orinoco I took a nest and set of 
eggs of this species, on April 13, 1898. This nest was in a small 
scrub oak, about 6 m. from the ground. It was surrounded by a 
tangle of small twigs, and almost completely concealed by green 
leaves. The parent birds were very shy. The nest was thick- 
walled, outwardly composed chiefly of leaf stems, and lined with fine 
vegetable fibers and rootlets. The nest contained two eggs, both 
much incubated, only one of which was preserved. The egg is of a 
"dirty flesh-color, all over thickly covered with liver-brown and 
underlying pale purplish grey spots and patches, and measures 
23.1 X 16.8 mm."i 
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