l88 BROOKLYN IXSTITL'TE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
whitish or flesh color, in immature liirds, dusky blackish ; feet slaty. 
Females have the eye dark sepia brown : bill blackish : feet dusky slate 
color. 
Young males resemble the female, and mate and breed before ac- 
quiring the plumage of the adult. 
A nest with three fresh eggs was taken at Caicara on the 8th of 
June, 1907. The nest is a frail, thin-walled cup 6.5 cm. in diameter 
by 4 cm. in depth outside and 5 cm. in diameter by 3.5 cm. in depth 
inside. It is composed almost entirely of fine rootlets, wood-brown 
in color, with a scant inner lining of black horse-hair-like vegetable 
fibres. The side walls and bottom of the nest are so thin and were so 
loosely put together that the eggs were readily visible from below. 
The nest was about 3.5 m. from the ground, near the extreme tip of 
one ijf the topmost branches of a small tree, the trunk and branches 
of which were thickly studded with long sliarp thorns. It was loosely 
set on a small horizontal fork. No effort seemed to have been made 
toward "tieing" it to its supjiort. 
The eggs approach elliptical ovate in form. The ground color 
is a (lull greyish white. There is considerable variation in the 
amount and the color of the markings. One of the set is ihick!}' and 
nearly unifornil}- covered over the entire surface with small specks 
and dijts of vinaceous cinnamon. In addition there are some overly- 
ing spots and blotches of hazel brown, chiefly about the larger end. 
The other two eggs of the set are much less speckled although there 
is an abundance of minute dots of pale vinaceous cinnamon, tiie larger 
spots and blotches being about as evenly distributed as those in the 
egg first described, but nearer a pale drab brow n than a hazel : in addi- 
tion there are a few superimposed irregular sha])ed markings of dark 
seal brown ( almost black) about the larger end. 
On the i8th of June a nest with three eggs was collected, also 
at Caicara. This nest was about 2.~ m. up, between the thorns and 
thrust against the stem of a small thorny palm. It is less symmetri- 
cal in its outline, the walls are somewhat thicker and co;ii!)Osed of 
coarser materials, so loosely woven that the eggs could be seen through 
the nest bottom. There is no lining of black, hair-like vegetable 
fibres, as in 'the other nests. Three eggs were found in this nest, 
but owing to their advanced state of incubation onl}- two were saved. 
Thev are in everv wav similar in color and markings to the eggs of 
