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Stripes, white, faintly washed with yellowish, meeting across the fore- 
head and extending backward almost uniting in a band across the occi- 
put; wings and tail blackish; edges of outer webs of wing-coverts, and 
quills, outer and inner webs of tail feathers, and tips of feathers of 
lower back, rump and upper tail coverts, rufous ; below, including 
under wing-co\erts, bright yellow; throat white; inner webs of wing 
feathers, except at tips, rufous (juvenal male, Caicara, Venezuela, 
June 8, 1905, Geo. K. Cherrie, No. 3577, Brooklyn Institute Museum). 
Adults in fresh nuptial plumage show rufous edges to the tail 
feathers. 
The nesting season aKing the middle Orinoco begins early in 
April and continues into June. The nests are large, loosely woven 
ragged looking balls of plant fibres and soft grasses, with a large 
entrance hole on one side. They are usually placed near the ends of 
large horizontal limbs and rarely more than 3.48 m. from the ground. 
Two or three (rarely four) eggs are laid; they are speckled and 
spotted with reddish brown, with a few underlying pale purplish 
gray patches in some specimens. Usually the markings are confined 
to a zone about the larger end, but occasionally are quite evenly dis- 
tributed over the entire surface. The ground color varies from a 
delicate white to a faint pinkish buff. The form varies from ovate to 
elongate ovate. A set of three eggs collected at Caicara Alay 10, 1907 
(No. 14,735 Cherrie Coll.) measure 23.5 x 14.75 ; 22.5 x 14.5 and 22 x 
14.7 mm. A set of two taken in the same locality, June 21st (No. 
14,983 Cherrie Coll.) measure 23 x 15 and 23 x 15 mm. 
Myiozetetes 'I'HXENsis coLUMBiANus Cabanis & Heine. 
M[yiuactctcs\ colitnibianus Cal). & Hein., Mus. Hein. II. 1859. j). 62. 
Myiozetetes te.reiisis coliiinhianiis Berlepsch, Ibis, 1884. ji. 434 
(Angostura). 
Myiozetetes supcrcili'osiis coliimbiiviiis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 46 
(Ciudad Bolivar, Altagracia, Orinoco, Venezuela). 
Abundant from the delta region up to some distance beyond the 
mouth of the Caura River. In 1897 and 1898 I found it common at, 
Altagracia, midway between Ciudad Bolivar and Caicara. Not at 
all common at Caicara. Like the preceding species, it is an inhabi- 
tant of the thinly wooded savannas. 
In life the eye is light lirown to seal brown; bill and feet black. 
Birds in juvenal jilumage resemble tlie adults, hut are without 
