CHERRIE: ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ORINOCO REGION. 233 
(No. 10,768, 10,769 Coll. G. K. & Stella M. Cherrie) were apparently 
year-old, abandoned nests of the common yellow Oriole (Icterus 
xanthornus). A few small dead leaves of the Salada tree formed 
a lining, but whether they had been carried in by the birds or had 
fallen there by chance seemed open to question. The first of these 
nests contained a single Qgg, the second contained two eggs. In each 
case the parent birds were collected, the female taken with nest Xo. 
10,768 Cherrie Coll. having an tgg in the oviduct. A nest without 
eggs, together with the owners, taken at Caicara, May 4, 1905, is 
exactly similar in materials employed and style of structure with an- 
other nest of Icterus xanthornus, containing eggs, that hung within a 
few feet of it in the same tree. Also in the same tree were nests con- 
taining eggs of Pitangiis derbianus riifipennis and Myiosetetes stiper- 
ciliosns coliimbianus. 
An egg collected with the nest (one originally built by the A-ellow 
Oriole), and female parent bird at Auga Salada de Cuidad Bolivar 
April 17, 1907, is ovate in form and measures 22 x 15 mm. The o\i- 
duct of the female contained two imperfect eggs indicating that the 
full set would have been three. On the 7th of May, at Caicara a nest 
containing one egg just on the point of hatching and a day old chick, 
was collected ; the full set in this case was evidently two. 
MviozETETEs cav.JlNensis rufipennis Lawrence. 
Myiozetetes rufipennis Lawrence. Ann. Lye. X. Y. IX. p. 267. (Type, 
Puerto Cabello.) 
Myiozctetes cayenncnsis rufipennis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 43. 
M[yiozetctes] cayancnsis rufipennis Hellmayr, Novit. Zool.. X\', 1908, 
p. 49 (N. Venezuela, Orinoco Valley). 
M[yiozetetcs] c[ayanensis] rufipennis Hellmayr, P. Z. S., 1911, p. 1134. 
(Ciudad Bolivar, .\ltagracia, Caicara. Ouiribana de Caicara, Orinoco 
River). 
X^ative name Pccho amarillo, a name applied to all the yellow- 
breasted flycatchers. 
An abundant species throughout the sjiarsely wooded portion.-^ 
of the savanna regions. 
Adults have the eye dark sepia lirown ; bill and feet black. 
Young birds in juvenal plumage are dark brown with a faint 
olive wash above ; head black w-ithout coloretl crest, broad superciliary 
