Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 625 



hard, red elongated tips, resembling bits of sealing-wax; while usually 

 confined to the secondaries, these sometimes appear on some of the 

 primaries or coverts. 



Immature birds show pale streaks. 



Sexes similar. 



Length, 7.50; wing, 4.50; tail, 3.50; bill, .38. 



This fine species is an irregular but occasionally a not uncommon 

 winter visitant or resident as far south as northern Illinois and acci- 

 dental in southern Illinois. 



Mr. E. W. Nelson states, "Arrives in December and sometimes 

 remains until April. The winter of 1875-76 they were unusually 

 numerous. In a letter dated March 16, 1876, Mr. Charles Douglass, 

 of Waukegan, describes an immense flock of these birds which he 

 observed the day previous, upon the lake shore near the town." 

 (Birds of N. E. 111., 1876, p. 103.) Mr. Frank M. Woodruff writes: 

 "On January i, 1896, I obtained a fine pair at Lake Forest, Illinois, 

 and saw about twenty more." Mr. John F. Ferry has also taken 

 specimens in that locality. Prof. S. A. Forbes procured a specimen 

 in southern Illinois at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., on December 18, 

 1879 (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V., p. 118.). 



According to Mr. Butler (Birds of Indiana, 1897, p. 1002) they 

 were numerous at Whiting, Lake Co., Indiana, on March 30, 1880, 

 and "on December 4, 1880, Mr. R. A. Turtle shot thirty or forty 

 specimens out of a large flock at Whiting, Indiana." 



It is a regular winter visitant in Wisconsin and according to 

 Kumlien & Hollister "of much more regular occurrence from the 

 central part of the state northward." (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 106.) 



290. Bombycilla cedrorum Vieill. 



Cedar Waxwing. 



Ampelis cedrorum (Vieill.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 260. 



Distr.: Whole of the United States and north to Ontario, Quebec, 

 and Athabaska, breeding from the Carolinas, Kentucky, Missouri 

 and Kansas northward; south in winter to the West Indies and 

 Central America to Costa Rica. 



Special characters: Much smaller than the Bohemian Waxwing; 

 belly, tinged with yellow; under tail coverts, white. 



Adult: Head, with small crest; upper plumage, rich grayish 

 brown, brightest on the head and shading into gray on the rump 

 and upper tail coverts; a line of black across forehead at base of bill, 

 extending backward in a stripe through the eye; throat and breast, 

 grayish brown, shading into pale yellow on the belly; under tail 



