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mens) ; length G.50-7.50, wing about 3.G0-3.90, tail 2.30-2.60. Ejgs .87- 

 .01. Hab. Whole of temperate North America, south (in winter onij-?) 

 to Guatemala and West Indies. 



619. A. cedrorum (Vieill.). Cedar Waxwing. 

 a'. Tail tipped with rose-red ; tips of secondaries never with sealing-wax-like tips. 

 Greater wing-coverts dull red ; otherwise much like A. garrulus, but with- 

 out yellow tips to quills, but these, as also sometimes the secondaries, 

 usually tipped with rose-red. Hab. Japan. 



A. japonicus (SiEn.). Japanese Waxwing.' 



Gex-us PHAINOPEPLA Sclater. (Page 463, pi. CXIII., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Adult male : Uniform glossy blue-black, the inner webs of quills chiefly white ; 

 in printer, many feathers bordered with whitish. Adidt female : Plain brownish 

 gray, rather paler below, the wing coverts, secondaries, and lower tail-coverts mar- 

 gined with white ; white on inner webs of primaries more restricted and less 

 sharply defined than in male. Young : Similar to adult female. Length 7.00-7.75, 

 wing 3.60-3.S0, tail 3.80-4.10. Nest saucer-shaped, compact, of plant-fibres, etc., on 

 small trees. Eggs 2-3, .87 X -63, light grayish or dull grayish white, thiekh* 

 speckled with neutral tint, dark brown, and blackish. Hab. Arid region of Mexico, 

 and contiguous portions of United States, from western Texas to southern Cali- 

 fornia 620. P. nitens (Swains.). Phainopepla. 



Family LANIID^.— The Shrikes. (Page 323.) 



Genera. 

 (Characters same as those given for the Famih') Lanius. (Page 465.) 



Genus LANIUS Linn^us. (Page 465, pi. CXIII., fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Adults plain graj' above, the sides of the head, wings, 

 and tail black; the wings with a white patch at base of quills and tail, with much 

 white on exterior feathers and tips of others; lower parts whitish. Young essen- 

 tially similar to adults, but colors less strongly contrasted, the gray and white more 

 or less tinged with brownish, and more or less vermiculated, or "waved," with 

 narrow dusky bars; wing-coverts tipped with dull light buffy. Kcst & very bulky 

 structure, composed of sticks, dried grass-stems, wool, feathers, etc., placed in small 

 (usiiallj- thorny) trees or hedges. Eggs 4-7, dull whitish, spotted with light brown 

 or olive. 



' Bomhxcynra japonica SlEBOLD, Hist. Nat. Jap. Stat. 1S24, Ko. 2. AmpcUt japonica Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 184«, 278. 



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