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Youngstown, May 14. New York — Rochester, March 26. Massa- 

 chusetts — Boston, April 27. New Brunswick — Scotch Lake, April 28. 

 Quebec — Quebec, April 12. 



Banding records. — During an invasion in March 1932, several Bo- 

 hemian waxwings were banded at Waukegan, 111. One banded on 

 March 23 was found dying on April 11 at Milwaukee, Wis., and one 

 banded on March 25 was caught alive on April 15 at Craik, Saskatche- 

 wan, where it was kept until it died on May 1. 



A bird banded at Summerland, British Columbia, on February 15, 

 1933, was killed on March 20, 1934, at Silver City, S. Dak. 



During an invasion of Bohemian waxwings in Denmark in 1944, a 

 bird was captured that had been banded on Helgoland in December 

 1941, during the previous invasion. 



Casual record. — A specimen of the Old World race {B. g. garrulus) 

 was collected June 14, 1931, from a flock of four at Cape Tobin, Liver- 

 pool Land, near the outlet of Scoresby Sound, East Greenland. 



Egg dates. — Alberta: 24 records, May 24 to June 13; 17 records, 

 May 29 to June 6, indicating the height of the season. 



British Columbia: 39 records, June 11 to July 24; 20 records, July 

 8 to 16. 



BOMBYCILLA CEDKORUM Vieillot 



CEDAR WAXWING 

 Contributed by Winsor Marrett Tyler 



HABITS 



Cedar waxwings impress us as being unlike most of the birds we 

 know. We see them commonly in flocks or small companies through 

 the greater part of the year, but we never know just when they will 

 appear, or how numerously, for the movements of these flocks do not 

 conform to the regular northern and southern swings of migration 

 that the majority of North American birds make to and from their 

 breeding grounds. Moreover, unlike most birds, there is no close 

 relationship between the time of tlieir arrival on their nesting grounds 

 and the commencement of breeding. 



Wlien we become well acquainted with the waxwing we look upon 

 him as the perfect gentleman of the bird world. There is in him a 

 refinement of deportment and dress ; his voice is gentle and subdued ; 

 he is quiet and dignified in manner, sociable, never quarrelsome, and 

 into one of his habits, that of sharing food with his companions, we 

 may read, without too much stress of imagination, the quality of 

 politeness, almost unselfishness, very rare, almost unheard of, in the 

 animal kingdom. His plumage is delicate in coloring — soft, quiet 

 browns, grays, and pale yellow — set off, like a carnation in our button- 

 hole, by a touch of red on the wing. 



