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617 Stelgidopteryx serripennis (Audubon). 

 R oiigh- w i n ge d S w a 1 1 o w . 



Adults. — Length, 5.50. Wing, 4.50. Above, uniform plain brown ; under 

 surface, white, pale gray on tlie throat, breast and sides ; outer edge of outer- 

 most wing feathers rough to the touch, owing to the stiffened reflexed barbs. 



Young in first summer. — Similar, but strongly suffused with cinnamon above 

 and below ; wing-coverts and tertials broadly tipped with cinnamon. 



Nest of grass and feathers in a hole in a bank or in bridge abutments or a 

 stone wall ; eggs, four to seven, white, .75 x .52. 



Tolerably common summer resident as far north at least as Plain- 

 field. Arrives April 13th (April 19th), departs September 1st. 



This is a bird of Carolinian fauna; rare or local in the northern 

 counties of the State. They are usually seen in pairs about bridges or 

 quarries, and are distinguished by their dull brown color and plain 

 breasts. 



They nest at Princeton (Babson), Plainfield (Miller), the lower 

 Hudson Valley (Chapman), and Paterson (J. H. Clark) ; also occa- 

 sionally at Morristown (Thurber) and Summit (Holmes). Mr. Chap- 

 man also found them breeding on the upper Delaware at High Ejiob, 

 June 10th, 1890. 



Family BOMBYCILLID^. 



The Waxwings. 



618 Bombycilla garrula (Linnaeus). 

 Bohemian Waxwing. 



Adults. — Length, 7.50-8.50. Wing, 4. .50. Similar to B. cedrorum in gen- 

 eral appearance but grayer, with a conspicuous black throat ; chestnut patches 

 on the forehead and crissum and with yellow and white tips to the wing 

 feathers, in addition to the wax-like appendages of the secondaries. 



Exceedingly rare winter visitant. Dr. C. C. Abbott (1868)^ records 

 having seen two specimens shot in jSTew Jersey, one in Cape j\Iay 

 county the other in Morris county. In 188-1- he records two specimens 



^ Birds of N. J. 



- Naturalist's Rambles about Home. 



