196 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEI'M. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
Caicara. They were sent to the Tring Museum and recorded in the 
Berlepsch and Hartert paper. That is tlie only record I have for this 
species in over three years' work in the valley of the Orinoco. 
Myospiz.\ manimbe ( Lichtenstein). 
Pringilla Mauiuibc Licht.. Verz. Doubl. 1823. p. 2^. 
Myospiaa manimbe Berlepsch & Hartert. p. 28. 
Aljundant in the open savanna regions. Called Ratoncra by the 
natives from its habit of running about between the tufts of grass and 
concealing itself by crouching down close to the ground. 
.\n adult taken at Ciudad Bolivar, April 4th, had the eye vandyke 
brown ; bill above dusky, below cinereous ; feet pale. 
.\ male bird was flushed from a nest found at Caicara May 22. 
1905. The nest was on the ground at the foot of a bunch of rather 
long grass that drooped over and partially concealed it. It was 
constructed entirely of dry grasses loosely put together. Incuba- 
tion had just liegun in tlie three delicate, pure white and slightly 
glossy eggs. The eggs are short ovate in form and measure 
jS.2S X 14.5. 18.3 X 14.5 and 18.5 x 14. 5 mm. 
A second nest and set of eggs' of this species was taken at Las 
Guacas on the San Feliz River (a tributar\- of the Cuchivero) May 17. 
1907. This nest also was on the ground at the foot of a tussock of 
grass which completely concealed it. The female flushing from 
almost beneath my feet disclosed the nest, which is an almost perfect 
sphere of soft dry grasses with the entrance on one side. The nest 
measures 8.5 cm. in diameter outside, the entrance to the nest cavity 
about 3.5 cm. in diameter and the nest cavity about 6 cm. The 
eggs, two in number, were fresh. They are pure white in color, be- 
tween an ovate and a short ovate in form and measure 19 x 14.5 and 
18.25 X 14.5 mm. 
This species was observed by the writer at all points visited on 
the Orinoco. Klages sent a series to the American Museum that 
were collected at Maripa on the Caura River during the months of 
December. January, February. Alarch and April. These, compared with 
a series from other points in South America, such as Matto Grosso, 
Bahia, Bogota, and Apolobamba, Bolivia, seem in every way similar. 
'Allen. Bull. Am. M us. III. I Sg I. p. 374, describes two sets of eggs as belonging to this species, but says 
they are white with a delicate wreath of small spots of blackish brown and purplish lavender around th e 
larger end. The measurements of two eggs are given as ".77 x .56 (15.56 x 22 mm.) and .65 x .55 (11.31 x 
