"La Puerta" [= El Puerto, Venezuela] May 28 at 7:30 we drove up to "La Puerta" and I hunted for 20 minutes below the store at the summit through some stands of small oaks and few scattered pines. Then we drove up to the summit and found Lomb camped there. He had taken 3 C. M. Nelsoni - 2 juveniles and an adult. I hunted for 3 hours and saw 12 or so wrens in groups of about 5 birds. I shot 3 - not juveniles. I found a single wren foraging along the chlorphyte covered branch of an oak. All the wrens we found in a thick, wooded slope of a small canyon where the oaks were large & dense. When flying off, sometimes in pairs, other times in 3's or 4's, these birds give a rattling call similar to that of zonatus but weaker and less [illegible] uniformus. In fact all of the calls of this form are more subdued, less loud and excited than those of zonatus. The common call is a che - che - che or che - che- cha -- nasal in quality. I did not hear any definite syncopated or strongly rhythmic calls as in zonatus but several times the che-seria, or che-rotes, sped up and started to develop a fast triplet rhythm. Several birds may call together but not in perfect unison and with no development of a strong syncopated rhythm as in zonotus. In the flight call and sound of other calls this bird is close to zonatus, however, even though there is a