348 THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



nesting site becomes at once the spring rendezsi.ius, but tlie duties of maternity 

 are not seriously undertaken until aljout the ist of June. At the head of 

 Lake Chelan some twenty pairs of these Swallows, having left the old nest- 

 ing cliff a mile away, had engaged quarters at Field's Hotel, being assigned 

 to the boxed eaves of a second-story piazza in this pleasant caravanserai; 

 l.)ut they had not }'et deposited eggs on the 20th of June, 1906. 



Altho not formerly so fastidious — I ha\e found clift' nests composed 

 entirely of dried grass — these birds have become connoisseurs in upholstery 

 of feathers, and their unglossed white eggs, fi\-e or six in number, are 

 invariably smothered in purloined down, until we begin to suspect that our 

 fowls rather tlian our features have favored our adoption. 



No. 133. 



BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



A. O. IT. No. 618. Bombycilla garrula (Linn.). 



Synonyms. — XdrthI'Kx Waxwixg. Gre.xter W.\xwing. 



Description. — .-Idnlts: A conspicuous crest; body plumage soft, grayish- 

 brown or fawn-color, shading by insensible degrees between the several parts ; 

 back darker, passing into bright cinnamon-rufous on forehead and crown, and 

 thru dark ash of rump and upper tail-coverts into black of tail; tips of tail 

 feathers abruptly yellow (gamboge); breast with a vinaceous cast, passing into 

 cinnamon-rufous of cheeks; a narrow frontal line passing thru eye, and a short 

 throat-patch velvety black ; under tail-coverts deep cinnamon ; wing blackish- 

 ash, the tips of the primary coverts and the tips of the secondaries on outer webs. 

 white, tips of primaries on outer webs bright 3'ellow, whitening outwardly; the 

 shafts of the rectrices produced into peculiar flattened red "sealing-wax" tips ; 

 bill and feet black. Length about 8.00 (203.2): wing 4.61 (117.1); tail 2.56 

 (65); bill .47 (1 1.9). 



Recognition Marks. — Chewink size; grayish-brdwn CDJoration. As dis- 

 tinguished from the much more common Cedar-bird: belly not yellow; white 

 wing-bars ; under tail-coverts cinnamon. 



Nesting. — Not known to breed in Washington. Like that of next species. 

 Effgs, larger. Av. size, .98 x .69 (24.9x17.5). 



General Range. — Northern portions of northern hemisphere. In North 

 America, south in winter irregularly to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, 

 southern Colorado, and northern California. Breeds north of United States; 

 also, possibly, in the mountains of the West. 



Range in Washington. — Winter resident, regular and sometimes abundant 

 east (if the Cascades, especially in the northern tier of counties; rare or casual 

 on the West-side. 



Authorities.— .■?;;//'<'/« (/arndiis, Brewster, P.. N. O. C. VII. Oct. 1882, p. 

 227. D'. J. E. 



Specimens.— (U. of W.) Prov. P'. C. 



