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Family BOMBYCILLIDAE. Waxwings. 



AMPELIS CBDRORUM, Baird. 



Cedar Bird. 



Ampdis garrulus, Var. 0, Llnn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 297.— Gm. I, 1788, 838. 



Ampelis carolinmsis, Go?a^, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197. — Boxap. Consp. 1850, 336. 



Bombycaia carolinensis, BaissON, Orn. II, 1760, 337.— Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 227: V, 494; pi. 43.— Ib. Sya. 1839, 



165.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 165; pi. 245.— Waoler, Isis, 1831, 628. 

 Sombydlla cedrorum, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 88; pi. Ivii. — Ib. Galerie Ois. I, 1834, 186; pi. cxvli. 

 Ampdis americana, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 107; pi. vii. 

 Ampdis cedroTum, Baird, Gen. Eep. Birds, p. 318. 

 Sp. Cn.^Head crested. General color reddish olive, passing anteriorly on the neck, head, and breast into purplish cinna- 

 moti; posteriorly on the upper parts into ash; on the lower into yellow. Under tail coverts white. Chin dark sooty black, 

 fading insensibly into the ground color on the throat. Forehead, loral region, space below the eye, and a line above it on 

 the side of the head, intense black. Quills and tail dark plumbeous, passing behind into dusky; the tail tipped with yellow; 

 the primaries, except the first, margined with hoary. A short maxillary stripe, a narrow crescent on the infero-posterlor 

 quarter of the eye, white. Secondaries with horny tips, like red sealing wax. Length, 7.25; wing, 4.05; tail, 2. 60. 

 Hab. — North America generally; south to Guatemala. 



The cedar bird i.s much less common than in the cultivated Atlantic States. I have only seen 

 them in summer in pairs and small families, and suppose the greater part of those raised here 

 retire to the more open regions southward in the full. Their irregular migrations are probably 

 induced by want of food. — C. 



Townsend says that this bird is found in Oregon. I have never seen it west of the Rocky 

 mountains, but on several occasions have thought that I recognized its notes, when the brush 

 being so thick, or from some other circumstance, I was unable to take a glimpse of the bird. 

 This was at Fort Dalles. I think the species does not visit Puget Sound at all. If it does, it 

 must be very scarce in that vicinity, as all my eiforts to obtain even a single specimen were 

 fruitless. — S. 



MYIADESTES TOWNSENDII, C a b a n i s . 



Townsend's Flycatcher. 



Pliliogmys townsendii, Ald Orn. Biog. V, May, 1839, 206; pi. 419, f. 2.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 46 — Ib. Birds Amer. I, 

 1840, 243; pi. 69.— Townsend, Narrative, 1839, 338.— Ni'Ttall, Man. I, 2d. ed. 1840, 

 361.— Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. I, 1843, 261. 



Culicivora toumsendii, DeKay, N. Y. ZooI. II, 1844, 110. 



Myiadestes towtumdii, Cabanis, Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i, 208. — Baikd, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 321. 



f Myiadentes unicolor, Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 299; 1857, 5. (Is very closely allied. Cordova, Mexico. 



Sp. Ch. — Tail rather deeply forked. Exposed portion of spurious quill less than one-third that of the second; fourth quill 

 longest; second a little longer than the sixth. Head not crested. General color bluish ash, paler beneath; under wing 

 coverts white. Quills with a brownish yellow bar at the base of both webs mostly concealed, but showing a little below the 

 greater coverts and alulae; this succeeded liy a bar of dusky, and next to it another of brownish yellow acroi^s the outer 

 webs of the central quills only. Tertials tipped with white. Tail feathers dark brown; the middle ones more like the back; 

 the lateral with the outer web and tip, the second with the tip only, white. A wliite ring round the eye. 



Length, 8.75 inches; extent, 12.80; wing, 4.50; tail, 3.85. (8234.) 



Bab. — United States, from Rocky mountains and Black Hills to the Pacific; south to the holders of Mexico. 



I obtained a specimen of this bird near Fort Laramie, Nebraska, in October, when it was 

 apparently not uncommon there, and had much the habits of the flycatchers. — C. 



I was fortunate enough to secure a specimen at Fort Steilacoom, Washington Territory, on 



