DIKKCTOBY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 2(53 



1. AMERICAN" BARX SWALLOW. H. eeythbogastba. 

 7.00: dark steel-blue above; forehead, throat, and breast, 

 chestnut: remaining Fig. 349. 



lower parts, rich 

 brown : tail, crossed 

 by a band of white 

 spots, fig. 349. Fe- 

 male, duller. Breeds 

 throughout X. A. 

 from the Arctic re- 

 gions to the Gulf and 

 into Mexico, except- 

 ing Fla. : winters in 

 S. A. : south in Sep. 

 and Oct.: north in 

 April. Xests inside of 

 buildings, and very 

 rarely beneath their 

 eaves. Somewhat gre- 

 garious. Song, a CC, L, g, 1. 

 pleasing, bubbling melody. Flight, very graceful and easy. 



M. TVAXWIXGS. Ampelidae. 



Wings, long, pointed, folding beyond middle of short, 

 square tail, which is sharply tipped with yellow or red ; head, 

 crested: tips of shafts of secondaries (in our species), and 

 sometimes of tail feathers, tipped with a horny, sealingwax- 

 like expansion. Plumage, very smootl^ and blended. Xests, 

 in trees ; eggs, spotted. 



a. Waxwing^s. Ampelis. 



Characters as above. 



1. CEDAR WAXWIXG. A. cedorum. 7.25: wood-brown 

 above grading into slate on uppertail coverts ; beneath, black 

 on chin grading into brown on breast, yellow on abdomen, 

 and white on under tail coverts : black line on forehead 

 through eye: not over 20 per cent have the red tips to second- 



