CEDAR-BIRD— CEREOPSrS 8i 



the Families Laridai (Gull), Procellariidai (Petrel), Cohjmbidse 

 (Diver), and Alcidai (Auk). 



CEDAE-BIKD, a name given in North America to a delicately- 

 coloured and rather common bird Ampelis cedrorum, or caroUnensis of 

 some authors, for a long while confounded with its larger congener 

 A. garrulus (Waxwing), Avhich it much resembles in appearance 

 and characters — among them the dilatation at the tip of the 

 secondary Aving-quills looking like red sealing-wax ; but it is much 

 smaller and plainer in plumage. 



CELEOMORPH.E, Prof. Huxley's name {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, 

 p. 467) for the group containing the Picklai (Woodpecker) and 

 lyngidx (Wryneck), to which he found it difficult to assign a 

 place. Parker subsequently {Trans. R. Microsc. Soc. 1872, p. 219) 

 raised them to a higher rank as Saurognath^e. 



CEIiE or CEPiOMA (from cera, wax), the soft, generally some- 

 what swollen skin which covers the base of the upj^er bill, especially 

 well defined in Parrots and Diurnal Birds-of-Prey (see Bill). 



CEREOPSIS, a genus founded by Latham in 1801 {Suppl. Ind. 

 Orn. p. Ixvii.) on a single specimen of a bird received from Aus- 

 tralia apparently in poor condition, and placed by him in the Order 

 Grall.e. a truer view of its position 

 was, however, taken by those who had 

 observed it in its own country, where it 

 became known as the "Cape-Barren 

 Goose " from its occurring at that sj30t.^ 

 However abnormal in appearance this 

 bird may be with its short bill thickened 

 at the base, its i-ather long legs and 

 semipalmated feet, and its grey plumage 



, , 1 -, 1 1 1 1 ,1 • , Cereopsis. (After Swaiuson.) 



spotted wath black on the Aving-coverts ' 



and scapulars ; in its internal structure, as described by Yarrell (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1831, pp. 25, 26), it does not difler in the least important 

 character from other Geese, and in its habits, whether at large or in 

 confinement, is a thorough GooSE. It has been introduced into 

 England for more than 60 years, examples having been transferred 

 from Windsor, where it had bred freely in the menagerie of King 



^ According to Sonnini, who calls it "Le Cygne cendre " (iV. Did. d'hist. nat. 

 vii. p. 68), it was first noticed by Labillardiere in Esperance Bay on the south 

 coast of New Holland, during the search by D'Entrecasteaux for La Perouse in 

 1792. Collins in 1802 {New South Wales, ii. p. 94) ascribes its discovery by the 

 English settlers to one of the company of the ' Sydney Cove, ' who took it for a 

 Swan ; and Flinders, who was there in February 1798, accordingly named from it 

 two islands on the north coast of Van Dienian's Land. Bass orave the first intel- 

 ligible description, stating that it "was either a Brent or a Barnacle Goose or 

 between the two. " 



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