PASSEEES AMPELIDAE AMPELIS CEDRORUM. 



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FAM. AMPELIDAE: CHATTEEEES. 



AMPELIS CEDROEUM (Vieill.). 



Cedar Bird. 



Bombycilla ccdrorum, VIEILL., Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 88, pi. Ivii. 



Ampelis cedrorum, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 318. HEERM., P. E. E. Rep., x, pt. iv, 

 1859, 50. BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt ii, 1859, 56. HENRY, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, IOC (New Mexico). COOP. & SUCKL., 

 P. E, R. Rep., xii,pt. ii, I860, 187. HAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 

 162. BD., Eev. Am. Birds, i, 1806, 407. COOPER, Am. Nat, iii, 1869, 34. 

 Id., Birds Cal., i, 1870, 129. HENSHAW, Eep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's 

 Exped., 1874, 106. ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 176 (Eastern 

 Kansas). CoUES, Key N. A. Birds., 1872, 115, pi. 50. SNOW, Birds Kan., 

 1872, 8. AIKEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat Hist, 1872, 198. BD., BREW., & 

 RIDG., N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 401, pi. xviii, f. 2. HENSHAW, An. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist, N. Y., xi, 1874, 5. Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1874, Wheeler's 

 Exped., 1874, 43. COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 93. ALLEN, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist,, June, 1874, 24. 



Bombycilla carolinensis, NEWS., P. E. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 81. 



Except in Utah, where the species is not of uncommon occurrence, 

 especially in fall, the Cedar Bird appears not to be an abundant resident of 

 the Middle Region, though it has been reported from various and widely 

 distant points. Mr. Aiken has noticed its occurrence in El Paso County, 

 Colorado, but a few times, in the earlier part of the winter. Its occurrence in 

 Arizona seems to be exceptional, and it has been met with there but once 

 by us. A female, in much worn plumage, was taken, about thirty miles 

 south of Apache, and it is probable that it had nested in the neighborhood. 



PHAENOPEPLA NITENS (Sw.). 

 Black Flycatcher. 



Ptiligonys nitem, Sw., Anim. Meuag., 1838, 285. HEERM., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. iv, 



1859, 38. 

 Phainopepla nitens, BD., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, 5. XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phila., 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, Cal.). BD., U. S. & Mcx. Bound. Surv., ii, 



