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Ampelis cedrorum, S( l. 



SOUTHERN WAXWING; CEDAS-BIRD. 



Ampelis garruUis, var. /J, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, ■2i)7. Boinhycilla ctdrorum, Vieillot, 

 Ois. Am. Sept. 1, 1807, 88, pi. Ivii. — Ib. Gulei-ie Ois. I, 1834, 186, pi. cxTlii. — C.\B. 

 Jour. IV, 1856, 3 (Cuba). — Gundlacii, Cab. Jour. 1861, 328 (Cuba ; rare). Ampdii 

 cedrorum, ScL.lTEK, P. Z. S. 1856, 299 (Cordova) ; 1858, 302 (Oaxaca ; January) ; 1859, 

 364 (Xalapa ; CoriloTa) ; 1864, 172 (City of Me.xico). — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 13 (Guatemala). — BAinn, Birds N. Am. 1858, 318 ; Rev. 407. — Tavlou, Ibis, 1860, 

 111 (Honduras). —March, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phila. 1863, 294 (Jamaica). — Lokd, Pr. II. 

 Art. Inst. Woolwich, IV, 116 (British Columbia; nesting). — Cooper & Suckley, 

 P. K. Kep. XII, II, 187 (Washington Ter.). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 129.— 

 Samuels, Birds N. Eng. 265. Ampelis ameriama, Wils. Am. Orn. I, 1808, 107, pi. 

 vii. Bombijcilla americana, JoxES, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 29 (winter). — Rich. Bom- 

 hycilla carolinensis, Brisson, Orn. II, 1760, 337 (not binomial). — AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 

 1831, 227, pi. xliii. — In. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 16.5, pi. ccxiv. — Wagler. Ampelis 

 earolinensis, GosSE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197 (January). — Bon. 



Sp. Char. Crest moderate. General color soft vinaceous-cinnamoii, dee]>est anteriorly, 

 more olivaceous on back, scapulars and wing-coverts, passing into pure light ash on the 

 rump and uppei- tail-coverts, and into dingy yellow on flanks and abdomen. Lower tail- 

 coverts white. Whole of the wing posterior to the greater coverts slaty-ash, almost black 

 along end of inner "webs of prijnaries, the outer webs of which are narrowly edged with 

 hoary whitish. Tail slate passing into Ijlack terminally, tipped with a broad, sharply 

 defined band of gamboge-yellow. A broad stripe of intense velvety-black on side of 

 head, starting from nostril, passing across lore, and involving the eye, continued Irom it 

 beneath the crest to the occiput ; chin dull black, blending gradually into the brownish of 

 the throat. A narrow white line across the forehead and along side of crown, between 

 brown of crown and black of lore, etc., a narrow crescent on lower eyelid and a stripe 

 between black of lore and that of the throat, white. Male with each secondary quill ter- 

 minated by a bright red horny appendage to the shaft. Female with these very small and 

 few in number, or entirely absent. Young. In general appearance similar to the adult 

 female. Colors more grayish, with obsolete concealed whitish streaks on nape and down 

 back, these stripes becoming very conspicuous on the sides and flanks and across breast. 

 No black on chin. Rump grayish-brown ; abdomen and flanks dingy whitish. No appen- 

 dages to secondaries, and the yellow band across end of tail narrower than in adult. 



Hab. Whole of North America as far north as Lake Winnipeg and Hudson's Bay, south 

 branch of Sa.skatchewan, latitude 52+° (Richardson) ; south to Guatemala; Jamaica and 

 Cuba in winter. 



A specimen from CTiiatemala (No. 50,4.55 cJ) i,s almo.st identic;il with ex- 

 amples from tlie United States, but differs in having a small spot of yellow 

 at the tip of each primary ; also there are red appendages on the tip of a 

 few tail-feathers, as well as the longest feather of the lower tail-coverts. 

 The colors, generally, are softer, tlie brown more purplish, and the ash finer 

 and more bluisli, than in a fine spring male from Wasiiington, D. C. 



A specimen (No. 53,396 <? , Hnmboldt Itiver, Nevada, September 10, 18G8, 

 C. King, It. Kidgway) fnnn tlie .Middle Province of tiic United States, dif- 

 fers consideraVilv from any other in the C(jllection. The colors are much 

 paler, the anterior jiortions being almost ochraceous, tlie whole abdomen 

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