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ate ; moderate sea. Scattering^ Phalaropes {P. /obaius) seen about 

 10.30 A. M. 



September 11. Latitude 43° 11' 30" north; longitude 6(f 45' 

 west; I P. M.; temperature of air 59°; moderate west northwest 

 wind ; sky clear ; sea choppy. Four Red and four Northern Phala- 

 ropes seen. 



[To be concluded in the September Journai,.] 



A Pet Cedar Waxwing. 



By Mrs. DeIvLA F. Wkntworth, .South Portland. 



September 17th, 1908, a young Cedar Waxwing was found 

 helpless and almost unconscious on the lawn. On examination its 

 left wing seemed dislocated, and the left leg from the knee to the 

 foot was bent toward the right foot. We think that the dense fog 

 which prevailed the night before and that morning may have pre- 

 vented the bird from seeing the electric wires overhead and so been 

 the means of the accident. 



After beixig brought into the house he revived, and little by- 

 little recovered the use of his injured leg. After five months the 

 wing still hangs down nearly touching the perch, though, strange to 

 say, he can spread it fully, and close it nearly to the dimensions of 

 the well wing when closed. 



Cedric, for so we have named him, can hop from perch to perch 

 of the canary bird cage and from the floor of the cage to the 

 perches. When I take him out of the cage on my finger, Cedric 

 will sometimes try to fly, but succeeds only in flopping down upon 

 the floor, often striking heavily. Although frequently trying to fly 

 upward, he cannot use his left wing well enough to raise himself 

 wholly from the floor. 



Cedric does not appear to regard his cage as a prison, and, 

 though he sometimes shows fear of strange inanimate objects, is not 

 afraid of any person, and will take his favorite tidbits from any 

 offering hand. When first we offered food we found black cherries 



