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1907. The nest was saddled between the forks of a small branch at 
the extreme top of a Chaparo Oak which stood in the open savanna. 
It was about 6.10 m. from the ground. When found, one young bird 
was perched on the edge of the nest but flew away and was lost when I 
started to climb after the nest. The nest is a shallow, open, cup-shaped 
affair, resembling somewhat nests of the wood-pewee (Myiochanes 
virens), or more perhaps that of Pyrocephaliis or Sublegatus. It is a 
slight affair, loosely saddled in the forks, composed of rather short 
pieces of fine grass stems and other vegetable fibres with which are 
mixed many empty spider tgg cases. The whole is held together largely 
with spider-webs. The inner lining consists of a few feathers and more 
empty spider egg cases. Outside it measures 2.8 cm. in depth by 6 cm. 
in diameter; the nest cavity measures 1.3 cm. in depth by 4.2 cm. in 
diameter. 
Ornithion inerme Hartlaub. 
Ornithion inerme Hartl., J. F. O., 1853. p. 35 (locality unknown') ; Ber- 
lepsch & Hartert, p. 42 (Suapure, Caura River, Venezuela). 
Rare. Not observed by the writer (on first trip), but in Berlepsch 
and Hartert's paper a single specimen is reported collected at Suapure on 
the Caura River by Klages. In the Brooklyn Museum is a specimen 
collected by the writer at JNIaipures in December, 1905. In this example 
the eye was clay color; bill above black, below slate color; feet blackish 
slate. 
Ornithion pu.sillum napaeum (Ridgway). 
Myiopatis pusilla Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein., II. Sept. 1859. p. 58 
(Cartagena, Colombia). 
Ornithion napaeum Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X. 1888. p. 520 
(Diamantina, lower Amazon Valley). 
Ornithion pusilliim Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 42 (Suapure and La 
Pricion, Caura River; Altagracia, Caicara, Ciudad Bolivar, Orinoco 
River, Venezuela). 
Common throughout the savanna regions. Young birds are much 
paler, more cinereous below than the adults. 
Iris seal brown ; l>ill blackish, pale at base of the mandible ; feet 
dusky slate gray. 
'Berlepsch & Hartert (1. c), substitute Bahia. 
