426 Birds of Colorado 



also devours insects, catching flies on the Mdng like a 

 Flycatcher. Its call is a Hsping whistle. It occasionally 

 visits the to"RTis, and I have seen it in a suburban garden 

 plot in Colorado Springs in October. It is not hkely 

 to be found breeding in Colorado, but its nest is a bulky 

 structure about six to twenty feet from the ground in 

 a tree, and its eggs, three to four in number, are blueish- 

 white or greyish, spotted with lilac and dark brown. 



Cedar-Waxwing. Bomhycilla cedrorum. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 619— Colorado Records— Aiken 72, p. 198 ; 

 Scott 79, p. 93 ; Cooke 97, p. Ill ; Warren 09, p. 17 ; Henderson 09, 

 p. 239. 



Description. — Sexes alike. General coloiu- above brown, becoming 

 more grey on the rump, and more cinnamon on the head and breast ; 

 a narrow black band running through the eye along the base of the 

 upper mandible ; chin dull black, paling on the throat to brown ; wings 

 dusky grey unmarked except for the red sealing-wax coloured ap- 

 penda2;es to the shafts of the secondaries ; tail also dusky grey tipped 

 with yellow ; below, flanks and abdomen pale yellowish, under tail- 

 coverts white ; iris brown, bill black, greyish towards the base ; 

 legs black. Length 5-5; wing 3-60; tail 2-10; culmen -40; 

 tarsus -60. 



Some examples lack the red appendages to the secondaries, while 

 some possess them on the tail-feathers as well, and have the yellow 

 tail-tips narrower and paler, but this does not depend on sex or age. 

 Young birds of the year are olive-drab above and mottled white and 

 olive-drab below ; the black frontal band and the yellow tail-tip 

 are present, but there are no red appendages to the secondaries as 

 a rule. 



Distribution. — Breeding tlaroughout temperate North America from 

 British Columbia and Prince Edward Island south to Arizona and 

 Virginia ; wintering over the whole of the United States, and also 

 south to Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba and Jamaica. 



In Colorado the Cedar-bird is far from common, though apparently 

 a resident ; it keeps chiefly to higher elevations in summer and descends 

 to the foothills dm-ing the winter ; Aiken observed it several times in 

 early winter in El Paso co., and on one occasion saw a single bird on 

 May 23rd, near Limon out on the plains ; Scott foimd it breeding 

 twenty miles east (? west) of Fairplay in South Park on June 9th at 

 9,000 feet, and also observed it at Twin Lakes ; Warren reports that 



