232 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE ilL'SEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
eggs — SO far that I was able to save only one. It is rather short 
ovate measuring 18.25x13.75 mm. The color and markings are 
similar to those described above. The markings are massed chiefly 
in a circle about the larger end. 
A male in juvenal phmiage taken at Caicara. Jmie 8, 1905, (No. 
13,844 Cherrie Coll.i. is dark brown (nearly a clove brown) above, 
wings and tail darker. Feathers of the back and head narrowly 
tipped with buft'y brownish. Wing-coverts rather broadly tipped 
and tertials tipped and edged on the outer webs, with the same color. 
Throat and upper breast brownish gray, slightly mottled by buffy 
tips to the feathers: remaining under parts including under surface 
of the wing a primrose yellow. Eye grayish brown ; liill and feet 
blackish. 
In adult fresh specimens the eye is Vandyke brown or seal brown; 
bill is black or blackish ; feet slate black. 
In the American Museum is a single specimen from Marina on 
the Caura River (Klages Coll.). 
S. glaber is probably replaced in the delta regions by the follow- 
ing species. 
Legatus .vlbicoi.lis albicollis^ (Vieillot). 
Tyranitiis albicollis Vieillot, Nouw Diet. XXXV. 1819. p. 89. 
Lcffcttiis albicollis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 45. 
A not uncommon inhabitant of the strips of woodland bordering 
the smaller streams of the savanna regions. 
Fresh birds have the eye seal ; bill and feet black. 
A young bird 24 to 48 hours old had the skin of the back jet 
black, that below reddish flesh color. The natal down is a tawny 
russet with olive shade. 
The nesting season in the middle Orinoco region occurs during 
April and May. Some six or eight nests of this species have come 
under my observation, and in each case they have been in trees in 
which other species of birds were nesting. Two of the nests exam- 
ined, taken at Quiribana de Caicara April 8th and 14th, 1898, 
»Mr. Ridgway in characterizing the genus Legatus (Birds of North and Middle America. IV. 1907. 
438), says: — tarsus "typically exaspidean. " However, a careful examination of the specimens in the series 
in this Museum indicates that the tarsus is far from typically exaspidean; rather it is pycnaspidean, or per- 
haps it would be better described as quasi taxaspidean. The acrotarsium extends across the outer side'of 
tarsus, but apparently does not overlap the posterior edge at any point. The broad planter space between 
the edges of the acrotarsium is occupied on the posterior edge by three series of small roundish scutella or 
granules between which and the inner edge of the acrotarsium is a narrow area of non-scutellate integument. 
