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which blends into the color of the chin and upper throat which is 
olive yellow. No. 4862 (Bklyn. Inst. Mus.), is of a somewhat 
lighter shade of greyish hair brown ; the olive yellowish wash is perhaps 
a trifle more pronounced, but does not extend on to the chin or the 
throat which is pale, dusky grey. This specimen is further distinguished 
from the other two examples by distinct dusky shaft streaks on the 
feathers of the breast and sides. No. 4863 (Bklyn. Inst. Mus.), is 
nearly uniform greyish hair brown, with only a trace of olive yellow 
wash on the breast, and the chin and upper throat scarcely any paler 
than the belly. 
Eggs that are believed to be of this species were taken on two occasions. 
One, with a nest and set of eggs of Gynmomystax mexicanus, was col- 
lected at Caicara May 8, 1907. This egg was fresh. It is short ovate 
in form and measures 22.x 17 mm. It is thickly spotted with brown 
varying in shade from hazel to dark chestnut ; the lighter markings are 
overlaid by the darker ones of chestnut ; about the larger end the 
whitish ground color is entirely concealed. 
Two fresh eggs taken at Caicara July 2, 1907, with a nest and set 
of eggs of Synallaxis cinnamomea, are short ovate in form and 
measure 21.5x17 and 21x16.5 nim- They are similar to the single 
egg described above, but have the entire surface thickly covered with 
the hazel and chestnut spots but not uniting at any point to conceal 
the ground color. 
HoLQQUiscALUS LUGUBRis (Swainson). 
Quiscalus lugnbris Sws., .\nini. in Menag. 1838. p. 299; Berlepsch & 
Hartert, p. 33. 
Native name Tordito. During my stay at Ciudad Bolivar in April 
(1905), large flocks of this species of grackle were to be seen feeding in 
the same localities with Gynmomystax mexicanus and M.olothrus bona- 
riensis venezuelensis. They are gregarious at all seasons. I found a 
small colony breeding in a swamp near Caicara early in June. The 
nests were placed in the tops of small cabbage palms, the 'Moriches of 
the natives, four and five nests often in a single tree. The nests are 
strongly built, first having a foundation of dead leaves and mud, mixed ; 
then there is a superstructure of rather coarse dead grass and weed 
stems and a lining of moderately fine dead plant tendrils. The outside 
measurements of a nest now before me which was collected June 3, 1905, 
