CHERRIE: ornithology of the ORINOCO REGION. 20I 
Both parent birds remained near while I was collecting the nest 
and evinced great excitement, frequently breaking into full song. The 
young bird did not show any fear when I carried it to my camp and 
readily took food from the hand. It met an unfortunate end a few nights 
later, being killed by rats. 
On the 1907 expedition a nest with two fresh eggs together with 
tlie female parent bird was taken at Caicara on the 15th of June. 
This nest was placed between .small upright forks, in the top of a 
small thorny tree, about 5 m. from the ground. It is loosely, 
seemingly carelessly, put together, and of somewhat ragged exterior 
outlines. The nesting material consists of weed stems, broad 
grasses, a few leaves and strips of soft vegetable fibers (partially disinte- 
grated pieces from the leaves of some species of palm [ ?1 ) , with a 
thin layer of somewhat coarse tendril-like plant stems forming the lining. 
It measures outside about 10 cm. in diameter, and 7 cm. in depth ; inside 
about 6 cm. in diameter at the rim and 4.5 cm. in depth. The eggs are 
ovate in form, and measure 22.5 x 18 and 23.75 x 17.75 ™^'^'^- They are a 
bluish nile in color, one with dots, spots and irregular lines of black 
arranged in a band about the larger end, the other with a moderately wide 
band of irregular black lines and marks about the smaller end, and a few 
scattering black irregular lines and blotches over the body of the egg. 
Two eggs seem to constitute a full clutch. 
CORYPHOSPINGUS PILE.^TUS (Wicd.). 
Fringilla pileataWied, Reise Bras. II. 1821. p. 160. 
Coryphospingus pileatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 30. 
\'ery abiuidant at Ciudad Bolivar in the scattering clumps of trees 
that border the water courses on the savannas ; but not observed at any 
point higher up the river. In the adult male the eye is seal brown ; 
bill above black, below cinereous ; feet smoke grey. 
ICTERIDAE— CAS.SIOUES, H.\NGNEST.S, ORIOLES. BLACK- 
BIRDS. 
Seventeen species and subspecies are included in Berlepsch and 
Hartert's paper, fifteen of which number have been observed and collected 
by the writer. All are probably resident in the localities where found, 
