ORNITHOLOGY OF GUADALUPE ISLAND. 



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if they were of the same age it would be impossible to sej; 

 arate them. 



LIST OF SPECIMENS COLLECTED. 



No. 2419. — Testes large. Iris orange, tinged with carmine around pupil. 

 No. 2459. — Iris orange, tinced with carmine. 

 No. 2507. — Iris carmine. 

 No. 2569. — Iris carmine. 

 No. 2388. — Iris orange. 



22 Ampelis cedrorum. 



Cedar Waxwing. — Christmas morning was the brightest 

 and fairest I enjoyed during more than one hundred days 

 of my sojourn on the island. Taking a stroll through the 

 small cypress grove in search of birds not before met with, 

 I was rewarded by seeing what I supposed to be one of this 

 species, but was unable to capture it. Nothing was seen or 

 heard of it again for more than a month, until one pleasant 

 afternoon, as I was engaged in preparing specimens in the 

 ient, I heard the notes of the Cedar Bird close by, and 



