216 AMPELIDA, 
Sericeo-cinnamomeo-fusca, dorso paulo fuscescentiore, uropygio clare cinereo, alis et cauda purpurascenti-nigris, 
illarum secundariis quinque aut sex rhachibus ad apices coccineo terminatis, hac flavo terminata, crista 
elongata dorso concolori, fronte cum stria utrinque per oculos conjunctis nigris; subtus mento nigricante, 
abdomine flavido, crisso albo, rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 6°7, ale 5-7, caudex 2-4, rostri a rictu 
0-7, tarsi 0°7. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Femina mari similis, secundariorum apicibus coccineis aut paucioribus aut absentibus. 
Hab. Nortn AMEnrica generally to between 50° and 60° N. lat. 1°, Texas 11, Bermuda !9.— 
Mexico '*, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon (Couch), Guanajuato (Dugés !8), valley of 
Mexico ( White ®, le Strange), State of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast #2), Jalapa (de Oca5), 
Cordova (Sallé*), La Parada (Boucard 4), Oaxaca (Fenochio), Tehuantepec (Sumi- 
chrast °); GuaTEMALA (Skinner), ridge above Mixco, San Juan Sacatepeques, 
Duefias, Savana Grande, Escuintla, San Gerdnimo, Tactic, Coban, Cahabon, 
Choctum 8, Dolores near Peten (0. 8. & F. D. G.); Honpuras, Siquatepeque 
(G@. C. Taylor ).—Cusa2; Jamatca 21, 
The Cedar-bird is a common winter visitant to Mexico and Guatemala, though 
somewhat irregular in its movements, doubtless owing to the state of the seasons in 
North America, its summer quarters. Though usually commoner in the highlands, it is 
found at comparatively low elevations, both in Mexico and Guatemala. Prof. Sumi- 
chrast has given Tehuantepec as one of the localities in the former country where it 
occurs; and in the latter we observed it both at Escuintla, about 1500 feet above the 
sea, and in the pine-ridge of Dolores, in the department of Peten, which is at a still 
lower elevation. In the hills round the city of Guatemala it is to be seen in some 
abundance from autumn to spring, flying in flocks or perched on some fruit-bearing 
tree. In the neighbourhood of Coban it is also a common bird. Mr. Taylor’s is the 
only record of the occurrence of A. cedrorum beyond the limits of Guatemala, he 
having found it near Siquatepeque, in the Republic of Honduras 1°. Dr. Coues, indeed, 
credits Dr. Hartlaub for the statement of its occurrence at Guayaquil; but the reference 
under which this statement is said to be made only mentions Cuba as one of the places 
to which the Cedar-bird strays; so that its appearance in South America has yet to be 
recorded, notwithstanding the observation of Brewer, for which he gives no authority, 
that the bird is abundant in the northern parts of South America and also throughout 
Central America. As regards the Antilles, 4. cedrorwm can only be said to appear at 
rare intervals in Jamaica and Cuba; Mr. Gosse quotes Hill’s authority for its occurrence 
in Jamaica, a flock having been observed near Spanish Town in 1836. In Cuba also it 
is quite a rare straggler; but when it does visit that island it appears in flocks and not 
as single birds. Its line of migration would seem therefore, as a rule, to follow the 
land to the westward, and not to cross any wide expanse of sea; but it has occurred 
several times in Bermuda ?9, 
In the United States and in Canada Ampelis cedrorum is a very familiar bird; and a 
full account of its habits is given in the ‘History of North-American Birds.’ In its 
