30 
eggs, was placed 12 feet high up in a balsam tree; the 
bird was shot from the nest. 
THE CEDAR WAXWING. 
(AMPELIS CEDRORUM.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by Newton. 
Rejected by Seebohm. 
Professor Newton in a note briefly alludes to Gray’s 
account of its appearance in waters which may be called 
British, this bird, according to Gray, joined the ship in 
Canadian waters, on its flight across the Atlantic, and 
was carried into Irish waters; but on nearing land changed 
to another ship Canada bound, on the authority of Mr. 
Struthers of Lark Hall. 
Gray, (in his Birds of West Scotland,) says one was 
shot at Cambo, in Fifeshire, in 1841, less than ‘ Garrula,’ 
There is probably no egg which could more readily 
be passed off on the unwary than this for the valuable egg 
of ‘Garrula’; it is however as arule smaller and brighter 
than Garrula; at any rate my set of Garrula from Lapland 
are larger, and the ground grayer and the spots less 
vivid. 
THE RED & BUFF SHOUIL.DERED BLACKBIRD. 
(AGEL2US PHNICEUS.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Admitted by Newton. 
Noticed by Seebohm. 
Newton, following Yarrell, gives Place and Picture to the 
bird; he however glances at the fosszdility of the twelve 
