CHERRIE: ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ORINOCO RECION. 23I 
writer, but two specimens were sent to the Tring Museum by Klages 
which were collected at Suapure on the Caura River. One of these 
was identified by Berlepsch and Hartert as Blainea macilvaini but 
Hellniayr has shown it to belong to this species. 
SuBLEG.\Tus GL.\BER Sclater & Salvin. 
Snblegatus glaber Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1868. p. 171. PI. XIII. fig. 2. 
Sublegatus brevirostris glaber Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 45. ( Ciudad 
Bolivar, Altagracia, Caicara, Orinoco, N'enezucla). 
An abundant species on the sparsely wooded savanna, from Ciu- 
dad Bolivar as far as the mouth of the Apure. A nest and two eggs 
were taken at Quiribana de Caicara, April 15th (No. 1075 Coll. G. K. 
and Stella M. Cherrie). In general characters the nest is similar 
to nests of Pyrocephalns or Elaenia. A neat, compact, although 
rather frail cup saddled on a horizontal limb usually at a fork where 
a broader foundation is available. Short bits of thin dr}^ bark and 
plant stems, held together by cobwebs, form the body of the nest and 
there is a lining of a few soft feathers. The inside measurements 
are 5 cm. diameter, by 1.3 cm. in depth. The eggs are ovate in 
form ; thickly marked with irregular seal brown spots that overlie 
other spots of a pale lavender color, all on a ground color of bluish 
white. In one egg the spots are pretty uniformly distributed over 
the entire egg. in the other they are confined chiefly about the larger 
end. The measurements are 17.5 x 13.5 and 17 x 13 mm. 
A nest which, together with a set of eggs and the female parent, 
was taken at Agua Salada de Ciudad Bolivar, April 15th, was placed 
on and between the forks near the tip of a horizontal branch of a scrub 
oak. and only about 1.8 m. from the ground. The body of the nest 
.'ieems to be made up almost entirely of short bits of the thin paper- 
like outer bark of the scrub oak, or guaramal; held together and 
attached to the supporting branch by spiders' welis. There is a 
scant lining of short pieces of fine wire-like, thin, dead grass stems, 
a few bits of soft bark and more cobwebs. The nest is a shallow 
open cup measuring 6.5 cm. outside diameter by 4.5 cm. inside and 
only 2.5 cm. outside depth. Being constructed of the same sort of 
bark as the supporting branch it is very inconspicuous. 
The parent bird sat so closely that my hand almost touched her 
before she fluttered awav. Incubation was far advanced in the two 
