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(as indeed all birds are, more or less,) and should 

 be protected by him. 







FOOD. The Cedar Waxwing, as also the Eu- 

 ropean Chatterer, are sometimes kept in a cage 

 for their beauty ; they may be fed with meal and 

 milk, or any kind of berries, or cherries, and in 

 the winter, dried berries or black currants ; they 

 must be soaked in water to make them soft, so 

 that they can swallow them ; they must also have 

 beef, cut in very small bits, or scraped, as for the 

 Mocking Bird. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEXES. There is no 

 distinguishing characteristics of the sexes in the 

 plumage of these birds, and it is of no conse- 

 quence here, as the song of both, such as it is, is 

 alike. 



The upper parts of this bird are of a reddish 

 brown, or dark fawn color ; the front of the neck 

 lighter, the back browner ; on the head a fine 

 crest, which comes up to a sharp point, a line of 

 black, as also a line of white, runs from the nos- 

 tril to the back of the head; below, another line 

 of white ; lower parts, yellow ; white at the tail ; 

 and at the extremities of the secondaries, or short- 

 est feathers of the wings, there are sometimes, on 



