THE CEDAR-BIRD. 265 
This species, with the general appearance of the Cedar-bird, is readily distin- 
guished by its superior size, much larger crest, black chin and throat, instead of 
chin alone, brownish-chestnut under tail coverts, instead of white, and the white 
marks on the wing not found at all in the other. In the closed wing, the white on 
the ends of the primaries forms a continuous narrow stripe nearly parallel with the 
outer edge of the wing. 
HIS bird is an extremely rare winter visitor in New 
England, appearing only in severe seasons. It is seen 
in small flocks of perhaps six or eight individuals, usually 
in groves of cedars or Virginia junipers, where it feeds on 
the small blue berries or seeds that are found on those trees. 
This species breeds in the most northern portions of the 
continent. 
AMPELIS CEDRORUM. — Baird. 
The Cedar-bird; Cherry-bird. 
Ampelis garrulus, Linneus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766) 297. 
Bombycilla Carolinensis, Audubon. Orn. Biog., I. (1831) 227; V. 494. 
Ampelis Americana, Wilson. Am. Orn., I. (1808) 107. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Head crested; general color reddish-olive, passing anteriorly on the neck, head, 
and breast into purplish-cinnamon, posteriorly on the upper parts into ash, on the 
lower into yellow; under tail coverts white; chin dark sooty-black, fading insensibly 
into the ground-color on the throat; forehead, loral region, space below the eye, and 
a line above it on the side of the head, intense black; quills and tail dark-plumbeous, 
passing behind into dusky; the tail tipped with yellow; the primaries, except the 
first, margined with hoary; a short maxillary stripe, a narrow crescent on the infero- 
posterior quarter of the eye, white; secondaries with horny tips, like red sealing-wax. 
Length, seven and twenty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, four and five one- 
hundredths; tail, two and sixty one-hundredths inches. 
Hab. — North America generally, south to Guatemala. 
This very common and well-known bird is a summer 
inhabitant of all New England. It remains in the southern 
districts through the winter, but usually arrives, in flocks 
of twenty or thirty, as early as the first or second week 
in March. About the middle of May, these flocks are 
divided into smaller ones, and these soon into pairs, 
which commence building about the second week in June. 
The nest is placed in*the midst of twigs on a horizontal 
