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in Kent Co., April 4. 1889" (S. E.White); ''often exceedingly abundant in Northern 

 Michigan" (H. Nehrling); "several flocks seen at Charlevoix in the fall; several 

 years since" (M. L. Leach); "Upper Peninsula"' (A. H. Boies); "Keweenaw Point" 

 (Kneeland); "Traverse City" (M. L. Leach); "has been taken in Southern Indiana 

 several times" (A. W. Butler). 



Cedar Bird, natural size. 



264 -6 19- (16 7). Ampelis cedronim (VieilL). * Cedar Bird; Cedar Waxwing; 

 Cherry Bird. 



Very common; throughout the state; April to August; not rare in winter; 

 embraced in Cabot's Birds of Lake Superior; "common summer resident at Macki- 

 nac Island" (S. E.White); "common at Iron Mountain" (E.E.Brewster); "Kewee- 

 naw Point" (Kneeland); "abundant at Albion and St. Joseph and very common 

 along Escanaba River, where it feeds extensively on insects" (O. B. Warren); 

 migrates frequently for short distances; in flocks; breeds; nests in bushes, trees of 

 the orchard or woodland, etc., in July and August; eggs four to six, light drab or 

 clay white, specked with black and brown; eats cherries, apple blossoms, berries 

 and insects, " eats one hundred canker worms daily " (Forbes' Report Michigan 

 State Horticultural Society, 1881. p. 204); " I have been them feeding extensively on 

 canker worms" (Prof. C. A. Davis); "eat elm beetles and many other insects" (Dr. 

 A. K. Fisher). From a preliminary report by F. E. L. Beal for the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, manuscript kindly loaned to me, I find that 125 

 stomachs of these birds from fourteen states were examined. The conclusions 

 reached were these: 1st, that the Cedar Birds eat a certain amount of insect food 

 at all times, when it can be obtained, aggregating in this case seventeen per cent 

 of the food for the whole year; 2d, that the greatest amount of insect food is eaten 

 during the month when fruit is the most abundant; 3d. that the greatest number 

 of insects is eaten in the month of May. with a decrease dviring the succeeding 

 months until September, when the percentage again rises; 4th, that the young, 

 while in the nest, are fed to a great extent on insect food; eats mountain-ash ber- 

 ries, etc., in winter. These beautiful birds are by no means exclusively insectivo- 

 rous, and a Hock will destroy an immense number of cherries; Dr. Gibbs writes me 



