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THE WAX- WING. 



back of the ears; under parts white, broadly streaked with 

 reddish-brown. Young, more generally dark brov/n, un- 

 spotted, with clear white forehead and eye-brows, and clear, 

 light reddish-brown under parts. Slyly nesting in the hole 

 of a tree, the nearly round, pure white eggs of this species 

 are 1.22 X .96. They are laid in April, and the newly- 

 hatched young are covered with a reddish down. This 

 pigmy must have a good appetite, for, not long since, an 

 individual was taken in N. J., the stomach of which " con- 

 tained a whole Flying-squirrel." Habitat, North America; 

 most common, perhaps, in the latitudes of New England 

 and Nova Scotia. 



THE WAX-WING. 



What a beautiful figure in the winter landscape is that 

 mountain ash in the front yard! — only it is no ash at all. 



THE WAX-WING. 



but a member of the Rose family. Symmetrical and grace- 

 ful, its dark-brown colored spray, beautifully relieved by the 



