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outside tail-feathers very long and white spotted. 
Builds its nest in barns. Generally hunts low. 
96. TREE SWALLOW.  Tachycineta bicolor. 
Length, 6 inches. Steel-blue black above; white 
below. Young brownish gray above. Originally 
nested in hollow trees, but now prefers barns and 
boxes. 
9%. BANK SWALLOW. Clivicola riparia. 
— Length, 51 inches. Upper parts and breast brown- 
ish gray ; throat and belly white. Nest in colonies in 
sand-banks, in which they dig holes three feet deep 
for their nests. 
ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW. Stelgidopteryx 
serripennis. — Length, 5% inches. Brownish gray 
above; throat and breast brown; belly white; outer 
quill on the wing rough-edged. A Southern and 
Western species. 
WAXWINGS. — Ampelidae. 
Bru. — Short and notched at tip. 
Heap. — Crested; some feathers with 
waxlike red spots. 
Foop. — Berries and cherries. 
98. CEDAR BIRD. WAXWING. Ampelis 
cedrorum. — Length, 74 inches. Grayish red-brown 
above ; underparts whitish gray with a yellow tint; 
tip of wing and tail-feathers lemon yellow, with or 
without a red spot in the centre resembling a drop of 
sealing-wax. Mostly a northern bird, though occa- 
sionally breeding in the United States. He oener- 
ally arrives in small flocks in the spring and fall, and 
stays off and on through the whole winter. He feeds 
on cedar berries, and if he is here at the right season, 
on cherries. A genuine tree bird, rarely seen on the 
ground. 
BOHEMIAN WAXWING. — Ampelis garrulus. — 
Length, 8inches. Resembles the Cedar Bird in every- 
