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of small feathers with an occasional bit of gray lichen. A nest before 
me, collected on the 19th of May, measures inside 4.5 cm. in diameter 
by I cm. in depth. I have never found more than two eggs in a nest. 
In a set, taken April 29th at Quiribana de Caicara, they are short ovate 
in form, pale bluish white in color marked with two sets of rather large 
spots about the larger end. The underlying spots are cinereous, the 
superimposed ones blackish brown. They measure 17.75 ^ ^3-75 ^"d 
18 X 14.2 mm. 
Nesting birds are very confiding. I have on several occasions 
touched a brooding female before she would leave the nest. 
OcHTHORNis LiTTOR.VLis (Pelzeln). 
Elainea littoralis Pelz., Orn. Bras. 1868. pp. 108, 180. 
Ochthornis littoralis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 35. 
Only one specimen observed, an adult female taken at Bichaco 
midway between the mouth of the river Meta and the falls of Atures, 
September 18, 1898. Specimens have been taken also on the Caura 
River, at Suapure and La Pricion by Klages, and at Nicare by Andre. 
SisOPYGis ICTEROPHRYS (Vieillot). 
Miiscicapa icterophrys VieilL, Nouv. Diet. XII. 1817. p. 458. 
Sisopygis icterophrys Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 35. 
Only the single specimen, recorded by Berlepsh and Hartert, was 
collected ; an adult female taken at Altagracia. September 19, 1898. Not 
again observed. 
KnipolEGUs orenocEnsis Berlepsch. 
Cnipolegiis orcnoccnsis Berlepsch, Il)is. 1884. p. 433. PI. XII. (Angos- 
tura) ; Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 35 (Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela). 
The type of this species came from Ciudad Bolivar (Angostura), 
where specimens were secured on the last Museum expedition, but it 
was observed more frequently about Altagracia and at Caicara; it was 
not noted beyond the mouth of the Meta River. 
A bird in juvcnal plumage taken at Agua Salada de Ciudad 
Bolivar, April 13th, is a dark dusky olive brown above: the wings and 
tail brownish black narrowly edged with pale brownish (raw umber) ; 
greater and median wing-coverts tipped with raw umber brown; below 
greyish hair brown, belly brownish or buffy brownish white. 
