CEDAR-BIRD—CEREOPSTS 81 
the Families Laridx (GULL), Procellariide (PETREL), Colymbida 
(Diver), and Alcidx (AUK). 
CEDAR-BIRD, a name given in North America to a delicately- 
coloured and rather common bird Ampelis cedrorum, or carolinensis of 
some authors, for a long while confounded with its larger congener 
A. garrulus (WAXWING), which it much resembles in appearance 
and characters—-among them the dilatation at the tip of the 
secondary wing-quills looking like red sealing-wax ; but it is much 
smaller and plainer in plumage. 
CELEOMORPH 4, Prof. Huxley’s name (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, 
p- 467) for the group containing the Picidx (\WWOODPECKER) and 
Tyngidez (WRYNECK), to which he found it difficult to assign a 
place. Parker subsequently (Zrans. R. Microsc. Soc. 1872, p. 219) 
raised them to a higher rank as SAUROGNATH2. 
CERE or CEROMA (from cera, wax), the soft, generally some- 
what swollen skin which covers the base of the upper -bill, especially 
well defined in Parrots and Diurnal Birds-of-Prey (see BILL). 
CEREOPSIS, a genus founded by Latham in 1801 (Suppl. Ind. 
Orn. p. lxvii.) on a single specimen of a bird received from Aus- 
~ tralia apparently in poor condition, and placed by him in the Order 
GRALLZ. <A truer view of its position 
was, however, taken by those who had 
observed it in its own country, where it 
became known as the ‘“Cape- Barren 
Goose” from its occurring at that spot.' 
However abnormal in appearance this 
bird may be with its short bill thickened 
at the base, its rather long legs and 
-semipalmated feet, and its grey plumage 
spotted with black on the wing-coverts 
and scapulars ; in its internal structure, as described by Yarrell (Proc. 
. Zool. Soc. 1831, pp. 25, 26), it does not differ in the least important 
character from other Geese, and in its habits, whether at large or in 
confinement, is a thorough Goosr. It has been introduced into 
England for more than 60 years, examples having been transferred 
from Windsor, where it had bred freely in the menagerie of King 
CEereEorsis. (After Swainson.) 
1 According to Sonnini, who calls it ‘‘ Le Cygne cendré” (N. Dict. @hist. nat. 
vii. p. 68), it was first noticed by Labillardiére in Espérance Bay on the south 
coast of New Holland, during the search by D’Entrecasteaux for La Perouse in 
1792. Collins in 1802 (New South Wales, ii. p. 94) ascribes its discovery by the 
English settlers to one of the company of the ‘Sydney Cove,’ who took it for a 
Swan ; and Flinders, who was there in February 1798, accordingly named from it 
two islands on the north coast of Van Dieman’s Land. Bass gave the first intel- 
ligible description, stating that it ‘‘was either a Brent or a Barnacle Goose or 
between the two.” 
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