116 PTILOGONYDIN/, MYIADESTIN®.—GEN. 51. 
Carolina Waxwing. Cedar Bird. Cherry Bird. Under tail coverts 
whitish ; little or uo orange-brown about head; no white on wings; chin 
black, shading gradually into the color of the throat; a black frontal, loral 
and transocular stripe, as in garrulus, but this bordered on the forehead with 
whitish ; a white touch on lower eyelid, feathers on side of under jaw 
white ; abdomen soiled yellowish. 6 or 7 long ; 
wing about 32. Eastern North America to 
Hudson’s Bay; an abundant bird, irregularly 
migratory, going in flocks nearly the whole 
year; breeds late (in June) in orchards and 
thickets; the nest is placed in the crotch of a 
tree; the eggs are 3-4, dull pale bluish, 
speckled with purplish and blackish. Wiuts., 
1, LOG, pl. 3 ANurrs) 122485 AD, wlvesslions 
pl? 245); Bp, 58: a a5.) oe) CEDEORUME 
Subfamily PTILOGONYDINA. Ptilogonys. 
SURE CENT RRINV ERS ACS Bill much as in the last subfamily, but slenderer for 
its length; nasal scale naked; a few short bristles about the base of the bill. 
Tarsus scutellate anteriorly, and sometimes also on the sides; about as long as 
the middle toe and claw; hind toe remarkably short. Wings not longer than the 
tail, much rounded, of ten primaries ; the 1st spurious, less than half as long as the 
2nd, which is only about as long as the 8th; point of the wing formed by the 4th, 
dth and 6th or 38rd quills. Tail long, nearly even, with broad plane feathers 
(Phenopepla) ; or much graduated, with tapering central feathers (Prilogonys). 
Head conspicuously crested ; sexes (in our genus) dissimilar; young not streaked 
or spotted. There are only two genera of the subfamily as thus restricted 
— Phenopepla and Ptilogonys, the latter with two strongly marked species of 
Mexico and Central America. 
51. Genus PHASNOPEPLA Sclater. 
Black Ptilogonys. @ uniform lustrous black; wings with a large white 
area, most of the inner web of each primary, except the first, being white ; 
9 brown, the white on the wings restricted or obsolete; young ¢ gradating 
between the coloration of both sexes. 7$; wing and tail 33-4. Valley of 
the Colorado and southward; a delightful songster, though the fact seems to 
have been ignored. Cass., Ill., 169, pl. 29; Bp., 320, and Rev., 416; 
CooPslail. Sear Fae a ey = a et VS oe Pence 
Subfamily MYITADESTIN A. Flycatching Thrushes. 
Bill as in the last subfamily. Tarsus booted, and toes deeply cleft, as in Turdide. 
Lateral toes very unequal in length, the tip of the inner claw falling short of the 
base of the middle. Wings of ten primaries, the 1st spurious, the 2nd about as 
long as the 6th, the point of the wing formed by the 5rd, 4th and 5th. Tail long, 
about equalling the wing, dowble-rownded, being forked centrally, graduated exter- 
nally ; all the feathers narrowing somewhat towards the end. Head subcrested ; 
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