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WAXWIXGS. 



aries and not over 1 per cent on tail, fig. 350. Breeds in tem- 

 perate N. A. from Va. north to Hudson Bay ; in fall and win- 

 tar wandering south to Fla., Bahamas, and some of the West 

 Indies. Gregarious. Flight, strong, steady and direct, with 

 a peculiar flutter of the wings. Xote, a rather low, hissing 

 chirp. 



Fig. 350. Fig. 351. 



CC, M, a, 1. 1-4. CC, M, a, 2. 1-4. 



2. BOHEMIAN WAXWING, A. gakkulus. 7.75; dif- 

 fers from 1 in being grayer, with no yellow on abdomen ; yel- 

 low or white lines on tips of wing feathers, white tips to spu- 

 rious wing, and chestnut under tail coverts, fig. 351. Breeds 

 in the coniferous forests of Northern Hymisphere; wander- 

 ing south in winter, irregularly, to northern U. S. Notes, 

 similar to those of 1, but louder. 



N. TAXAGERS. TANAGRIDAE. 



A large group of thick-billed, rather small singing perch- 

 ersthat are very closely allied to the Sparrows and Finches, 

 in fact, intergrading completely with them, but our species 

 do not have the cutting edge of upper mandible angled, page 

 8, C ; chiefly tropical and sub-tropical in distribution. 



a. Tooth-billed Tanag^ers. Pyrang-a. 



Bill, slightly toothed. Nests, placed in trees ; eggs, spot- 

 ted. 



