BIKDS OF NORTH AND MI])J)L1C AMKKK'A. 105 



red, preceded by Idackish; frontal antia', lores, streak through eye 

 (ninniiio' beneath erest, on occiput), and chin (sometimes throat also) 

 velvety black: anterior portion of malar region white. Young much 

 dulle!" than sulult, the Ujwer parts streaked with ln-ownish or dull 

 grayish on a whitish ground. 



NldificaUon. — Nest in trees, bulky, constructed of small twigs, root- 

 lets, etc., mixed and lined with feathers and other soft materials. 

 Eggs 3-5, pale dull bluish or pale purplish gray, spotted and dotted 

 with dark brown, ])la('k, and purplish. 



Range. — Temperate and subartic portions of Northern Hemisphere. 

 (Three species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OP AMPELIS. 



a. Tenuiual band of tail yellow; greater wing-coverts entirely drab. 



/(. Tjarger (wing 110-121); forehead and under tail-coverts cinnanion-rufons; pri- 

 mary coverts, outer webs of secondaries and outer webs of ]>rimaries tipped 

 with white (the latter sometimes with yellow); throat black. (Circumpolar; 

 south to northern United States in winter. )..Ampelis garrulus, adults (p. 105) 

 111). Smaller (wing 90-99); forehead wood-brown, margined anteriorly by a whitish 

 line; under tail-coverts white; no white nor yellow on primary coverts nor 

 remiges; tliroat brown. (North America and southward to Costa Rica.) 



Ampelis cedrorum, adults (p. 109) 

 an. Terminal Vjand of tail rose red; greater wing-coverts jiartly }>n)wnish red. (North- 

 eastern Asia. ) Ampelis japonica. adults (extralimital)« 



AMPELIS GARRULUS Linnaeus. 

 BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



Adults {sexes alike). — {a) Perfect ])linnaxie: General color soft drab, 

 becoming- gradually more vinaceous or cinnamomeous anteriorW, more 

 grayish (pale gra3'ish drab or drab-gray) on abdomen, sides, and flanks, 

 the rump and upper tall-coverts nearly pure gray (no. 0); forehead, 

 superciliary region, middle portion of malar region, and under tail- 

 coverts cinnamon-rufous; frontal antise, lores, postociUar streak, chin, 

 and upper throat velvet}^ black; malar apex and narrow streak inune- 

 dlately beneath posterior half (or more) of lower eyelid white; lower 

 abdomen and anal region pale yellowish or 3-ellowish white: second- 

 aries slate-gray, darker on Inner webs (except of tertials), their outer 



d' Boinbycivora japonica Siebold, Hist. Nat. Jap., 1824, 13 (Tokyo, Japan); in Feruss. 

 Bull. Sci. Nat., iv, 1825, 87.— A\_mpelis'] japonica Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1S46. 27S.— 

 Ampelii jaj>onicii.'< Sharpe, Cat. Birils Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 217. — Bonibi/cilla pfnnili-oji- 

 ferum Tt'inmiiick, PI. Col., ii, 182S, pi. 450. — [Ampeli.^'j pimenlcoptrra Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 336. This very lieautiful species is nmch more closely related to 

 A. garnihts than to A. cedrornni. It is smaller than .1. (/arniliiK, but like that species 

 has the foreliead, i)art of the malar region, and the undi'r tail-i'overts cinnamon- 

 rufous, and the throat black. 



