AMPELID^E — THE CHATTEREES. 401 



Ampelis cedrorum, Scl. 



SOUTHERN WAXWING ; CEDAE-BIRD. 



Ainpelis garrulus, yav. l3, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 297. Bmnbijcilla cedrorum, Vieillot, 

 Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, SS, pi. Ivii. — Ib. Galerie Ois. I, 1834, 186, pi. cxviii. — Cab. 

 Jour. IV, 1856, 3 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Cab. Jour. 1861, 328 (Cuba ; rare). Ampelis 

 cedrorum, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 299 (Cordova) ; 1858, 302 (Oaxaca ; January) ; 1859, 

 364 (Xalapa ; Cordova) ; 1864, 172 (City of Mexico). — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 13 (Guatemala). — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 318 ; Rev. 407. —Taylor, Ibi.s, 1860, 

 111 (Honduras). —March, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phila. 1863, 294 (Jamaica). — Lord, Pr. R. 

 Art. Inst. Woolwich, IV, 116 (British Columbia; nesting). — Cooper & Suckley, 

 P. R. Rep. XII, II, 187 (Washington Ter.). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 129.— 

 Samuels, Birds N. Eng. 265. Ampelis americaiia, Wils. Am. Orii. I, 1808, 107, pi. 

 vii. Bombycilla am^ricana, Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 29 (winter). — Rich. Bom- 

 bycilla carolinensis, Brissox, Orn. II, 1760, 337 (not binomial). — Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 

 1831, 227, pi. xliii. — Ib. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 165, pi. ccxlv. — Wagler. AmiJelis 

 carolinensis, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197 (January). — Box. 



Sp. Char. Crest moderate. General color soft vinaceous-cinnamon, deepest anteriorly, 

 more olivaceous on back, scapulars and wing-coverts, passing into pure light ash on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, and into dingy yellow on flanks and abdomen. Lower tail- 

 coverts white. Whole of the wing posterior to the greater coverts slaty- ash, almost black 

 along end of inner webs of primaries, the outer webs of which are narrowly edged with 

 hoary whitish. Tail .slate passing into black terminall}^, tipped Avith a broad, sharply 

 defined band of gamboge-yellow. A broad stripe of intense velvety-black on side of 

 head, starting from nostril, passing across lore, and involving the eye, continued from it 

 beneath the crest to the occiput ; chin dull black, blending gradually into the brownish of 

 the throat. A narrow white line across the forehead and along side of crown, between 

 brown of crown and black of lore, etc., a narrow crescent on lower eyelid and a stripe 

 between black of lore and that of the throat, white. Mah with each secondary quill ter- 

 minated by a bright red horny appendage to the shaft. Female with these very small and 

 few in number, or entirely absent. Young. In general appearance similar to the adult 

 female. Colors more grayish, Avith obsolete concealed whitish streaks on nape and down 

 back, these stripes becoming very conspicuous on the sides and flanks and across breast. 

 Xo black on chin. Rump grayish-lirown ; abdomen and flanks dingy whitish. No appen- 

 dages to secondaries, and the yellow band across end of tail narrower than in adult. 



Hab. Whole of North America as far north as Lake Winnipeg and Hudson's Bay, south 

 l)ranch of Saskatchewan, latitude 52^° (Richardson) ; south to Guatemala; Jamaica and 

 Cuba in winter. 



A specimen from Guatemala (N"o. 50,455 <?) is almost identical with ex- 

 amples from the United States, but differs in having a small spot of yellow 

 at the tip of each primary ; also there are red appendages on the tip of a 

 few tail-feathers, as well as the longest feather of the lower tail-coverts. 

 The colors, generally, are softer, the brown more purplish, and the ash finer 

 and more bluish, than in a fine spring male from Washington, D. C. 



A specimen (No. 53,396 $ , Humboldt Eiver, Nevada, September 10, 1868, 

 C. King, E. Eidgway) from the Middle Province of the United States, dif- 

 fers considerably from any other in tlie collection. The colors are much 

 paler, the anterior portions being almost ochraceous, the whole abdomen 

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