190 Dr. A. Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



Ventral aspect. Ferruginous, deeper on the breast and paler on 

 the throat and vent, the latter almost white ; inner tail covert& 

 whitish. 



2nd primary longest; 1st and 3rd subequal, and very little 

 shorter than 2nd. Length 6| inches; alar breadth 12 inches. 

 The female is duller coloured, and the young bird is dusky, with 

 occasional spots of white, and inferiorly whitish clouded with 

 dusky, but the wings and tail azure blue; hind claw only 2. the 

 length of the tarsus including the nail; middle toe and tarsus 

 equal. 



Genus Bomhycilla, 



Gen. char. Head crested ; bill short, straight, elevated, as d«ep 

 as broad at the base ; nostrils ovoid, basal, open, concealed by 

 nuchal bristles, projecting forward ; upper mandible with a strong- 

 ly marked tooth, and slightly curved towards its extremity; 

 exterior toe joined to the middle one as far as the 1st joint ; 

 1st and 2nd primaries longest ; spurious wing feathers very short ; 

 middle toe a little longer than the tarsus. 



B. Carolinensis. Cedar Bird — Cherry Bird — Recollet. 

 Ampelis Americana of Wilson ! 

 Ampelis cedrorum. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill, legs and feet black ; eggs 4 to 5, white, spotted 

 black towards their larger end. 



Prevailing tint of the dorsal and ventral aspects, fawn, deepen- 

 ing in tint on the back, and changing to a yellow on the abdo- 

 men ; upper tail coverts black ; lower ones white ; primaries and 

 secondaries dark ash colour, with brownish- white margins to the 

 outer vanes, and white on the inner vanes ; shafts of the secon- 

 daries elongated with broad scarlet waxen tips. These tips vary 

 in number ; in the specimen before me there are seven, and in 

 others I have seen but one or two existing, and very often none 

 at all. Tail with a terminal broad yellow band, occasionally tip- 

 ped like the secondaries ; frontlet, streak to, and beyond the eye, 

 with the chin velvet black. A white streak on the posterior half 

 of the lower mandible, and on the posterior half of the eyelid ; 

 Crest large and conic. 



2nd primary longest; 1st larger than the 3rd. Length 7 

 inches; alar breadth 13 J inches. The young birds are deficient 

 in the waxen tips, and I believe that the same ornaments are not 

 unfrequently met with in old females. 



