192 AMPELID^ : WAXWINGS. 



traits and habits of the Bohemian are quite the same 

 as those of the famiHar Cedar Bird ; the nidification is 

 substantially identical, and the eggs are only to be 

 distinguished by their superior size. 



CAROLINA WAXVVING; CEDAR-BIRD; 

 CHERRY-BIRD. 



Ampelis cedrorum (V.) Gray. 



Chars. Plumage peculiarly soft and smooth ; head conspicuously 

 crested. Body-color shading insensibly from clear ash on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts through olivaceous-cinnamon to rich 

 purplish-cinnamon on the fore-parts and head, and through yel- 

 lowish on the belly to white on the under tail-coverts. Fore- 

 head, lore, chin, and eye-stripe, velvety-black ; a sharp man- 

 dibular line, one also bordering the black lore, wiih the under 

 eyelid, white. Wing-quills slate-gray, dusky at the ends and pale 

 on the inner webs, without white or yellow markings, but the 

 inner ones with hard horny appendages, like red sealing-wax. 

 Tail tipped with yellow, occasionally also having the waxy appen- 

 dages. Bill plumbeous black, sometimes pale at base below ; feet 

 blackish. Length, 6.00-7.00; extent, 11. 50-12 00; wing, 3.50- 

 3.75 ; tail, 2.25 ; bill, 0.36 ; tarsus, 0.70. Specimens apparently 

 adult may lack the horny appendages, and these are usually 

 wanting in the young. The latter are streaked with dingy 

 whitish, but are sufificiently like the adults to be unmistakable. 



This Waxwing is something of a tramp, like its 

 elder brother, the Bohemian, and not much to be 

 depended upon for regular periodicity of movement, 

 in pointing the moral of Faunal areas. It is an abun- 

 dant New England bird, breeding anywhere in this 

 country, and to some uncertain extent a spring and 

 autumn migrant ; for numbers enter the country in the 

 former and depart in the latter season. Other num- 



