CHERRIE: ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ORINOCO REGION. I9I 
AsTRAGALiNus psAi.TuiA CiiiA'M III ANUS ( Laf resnave ) . 
Clirysomitris columbiaiia Lafr.. Re\-. Zool. 1843. p. 292. 
Spinus mexifanus colnntbianus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 27. 
On my first expedition to the Orinoco a fair series, representing 
birds in adult and in immature plumages, was coliected, partly at 
Altagracia and partly at Caicara. Specimens were collected in De- 
cember. February. Alarch and June. Only a single example was 
secured on the two recent expeditions. 
SiCALis FLAVEOLA (Linnaeus). 
Fringilla ffaz'cola L.. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. I. 1766. p. 321. 
Sycalis flaveola Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 27. 
Native name Arrocero grande. Field observations and specimens 
before me lea\-.e no doubt that the adult female of this species is like 
tiie adult male. A female taken at Ciudad Bolivar, April loth, can 
he distinguished from the male taken at the same place and date only 
by the presence of faint dusky shaft streaks in the feathers of the 
back. But three of the apparently adult males taken at Caicara show 
the same dusky streaks on the back, so that it is not improbable that 
with age the adult males and females will be absolutely indistinguish- 
able. The series before me also shows that breeding begins before 
the females have attained the adult plumage. A female taken June 
14th was brooding (as indicated by the condition of the abdomen). 
This bird is a rather light yellowish olive-green above. The feathers 
of the back are marked with dusky brcrwnish streaks, top of head 
greyish olive with dusky shaft streaks ; wing-coverts like the back ; 
quills and rectrices dusky brownish, edged with the color of the back. 
Lores and side of face greyish, interspersed with wax yellow feathers; 
throat and upper breast wax yellow forming a broad band ; breast and 
abdomen greyish white, palest on abdomen where there are a few 
canary yellow feathers. Under tail-coverts canary yellow : axillaries 
and under wing-coverts lemon yellow : inner edges of quills pale yel- 
low. 
In 1905 a nest of this species, found May 23th, occupied a deserted 
woodpecker's hole at the top of a dead palm stub about 7.6 m. 
from the ground. A little dead grass had been taken in as nesting 
material. Both parents were present, and indistinguishable in color, 
one from the other. The male was collected (No. 13.732, Geo. K. 
Cherrie, Caicara. \>nezuela). Only one egg. perfectly fresh, was found 
