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THE OOLOGIST 



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THE CEDAR WAXWING. 

 Nesting- and Flycatching Habits. 



A species of wide distribution and 

 known to students and lovers of birds 

 wherever it occurs. The Cedar bird 

 needs no description here nor need I 

 speak of the irregularity of its coming 

 and going, as its wandering habits are 

 known to all. 



I have never seen them here in mid- 



winter, hut they often appear in early 

 spring while the ground is still covered 

 with snow, and again are not recorded 

 until June. 



As a rule the Cedar Waxwing breeds 

 abundantly in thi.s locality each season, 

 there are exceptional years though, 

 when they are only tolerably common, 

 and hut few nests are found. They are 

 not particular in the choice of a npsting 

 site — woodland borders, orchards, pas- 

 ture fields, along the streams, highways 

 and village streets are all favorite nest- 

 ing localities — in fact their nests are 

 found nearly anywhere where there is 

 trees or bushes, and are composed of al- 

 most anything found in the immediate 

 vicinity. 



One found in a small spruce atTaplin 

 Pond marsh, with the exception of a few 

 spruce twigs, was composed entirely of 

 a greyish-green moss, which hangs in 

 festoons from the trees on the marsh. 

 A very pretty structure indeed. An- 

 other, saddled onto one of the lower 

 limbs of an apple tree by the roadside, 

 was built largely of the nests of the tent 

 caterpillar. Many nests are compossed 

 entirely of grasses and weed stems. 



Nesting heights range from three to 

 forty feet. 



Eggs show considerable variation in 

 color and markings, and a great deal in 

 size and shape; well, you probably have 

 either seen them or read descriptions 

 and measurements again and again. 

 Four or five is the usual number in a 

 set. I have yet to see a set of three, 

 which I had reason to think was com- 

 plete. And out of the abundance of 

 sets collected and examined, I have 

 seen only one of six that I collected 

 June 22, 1894. Tie nest was ten feet 

 up in a big poplar and its composition 

 will serve to illustrate what a varity of 

 materials is sometimes used, composed 

 of grasses, straw, weed stems and tops, 

 twigs, roots, twine, nests of the tent 

 caterpillar and one live cocoon; lined 

 with fine grasses, horse hair and a large 



