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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



Family AMPELID.^. Waxwings. 



Beautiful birds; Hy in Mocks; feed on seeds, insects and fruit. 



Subfamily AMPELIN.iC. Waxwings. 



(tenus AMPELIS Linn. 



Bohemian Waxwing. one-half natural size. 



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Is (^lUi)). Aiiipelis fj-arrnlus Linn. ^Bohemian Waxwinc;. 



Very rare; winter visitor; occasional in spring; Dr. G. W. Topping. DeWitt. 

 Michigan, took from one to three in .\pril of each of the years 1879-80-81 from 

 Hocks going north; "in flocks in Kent Co. nearly every spring, often as many as 

 one hundred "' (Dudley H). Waters); Does not Mr. Waters refer to the next species? 

 •'occasional at Port Sanilac in winter"' (W. A. Oldtield); Mr. Levi Broas has several 

 in his collection, which he took in Ionia Co.; 'seen in early spring at Bay City 

 in 188-1. may p<^)SBibly be mistaken in identihcation " (N. A. Eddy, in O. and O., 

 Vol. IX, 1884, p. 41); "saw a flock of about a dozen on Keweenaw Point in January, 

 1892, they were very fearless, keeping on with their feeding when I was within five 

 feet of them" (E. W. Durfee); Dr. Atkins took this bird at Locke several times 

 in March and once in April; E. L. Moseley reports two from Michigan; "four seen 



