CHERRIK: ORMTHOI.OGV OK THE ORINOCO REl'.ION. 243 
Eye dark brown ; bill black, pale at base of mandible ; feet slate 
grey. 
Empidonax lawrencei Allen. 
Empidonax laivrencei Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Xat. Hist. II. 1889. p. 150 
(Type, Ochthoeca flaviventris Lawrence, "South America" — locality 
unknown ) . 
Empidonax pilcatus Berlcpsch & Hartert p. 50 ( Suapure. Caura Ri\er). 
Not observed by the writer, but Klages secured a specimen on the 
Caura River at Suapure (see above) and the species has been also 
recorded from Cumana and Caripe. 
jMyiochanes brachytarsus (Sclater). 
Empidonax brachytarsus Scl., Ibis, I. 1859. p. 441. 
Horizopus brachytarsus deprcssirostris (Ridgw.) ? [sic] ; Berlepsch & 
Hartert, p. 50 (Altagracia, Orinoco River, \'enezuela). 
A female taken at Altagracia, December 16, 1897, was sent to the 
Tring Museum, but the writer has not since observed the species on 
the Orinoco. In Trinidad it is not uncommon. 
AIviARCIlU.-^ TYRAN-NrLUS TVRAXNL'LUS ( P. L. S. Miiller). 
Muscicapa tyrannulus Miill.. Natursyst. Supplement, 1776. p. 169 
(Cayenne). 
Myiarchus tyrannulus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 51. 
Common at Las Barrancas and from Ciudad Bolivar up to and 
beyond Caicara. 
Adults have the eye seal brown ; bill black ; feet blackish slate. 
The nesting season at Bolivar begins early in April. 
A male bird was flushed from a nest containing three fresh eggs 
April 8th. The nest was situated in a large cavity of a fence post, 
about 1.47 m. from the ground. The cavity was about 35.5 cm. 
deep, open from abo\e. and half way down one side the eggs were 
easily seen at the bottom of the nest. The nesting material con- 
sisted chiefly of cow hair with one or two bits of cloth and many 
pieces of cast off snake skin scattered through the body of the nest 
and about its upper edge. A few feathers "formed a nest-lining, a 
half-dozen bright green parrot scapulars adhering to a piece of skin 
being most conspicuous. 
