4A Birds of Canada. 
A. cedrorum—The Cedar Bird, or Cherry Bird. 
The Cedar Birds arrive here in flocks about 
the second week in March. They generally 
build their nests in orchard trees ; sometimes in 
a cedar or other evergreen tree; eggs, four or 
five in number, of a light blue or clay-white 
color, with a slight purple tint, with black spots. 
Farmers manifest a great deal of ill-feeling 
toward this bird, on account of its occasional 
fondness for cherries and other small fruit. It 
has, however, a much greater relish for cater- 
pillars and the larve of insects, of which it 
destroys immense numbers, and thereby more 
than compensates for the small quantity of 
fruit it eats. The only note of the Cherry Bird 
is ¢wee-tivee, uttered in a plaintive, soft manner. 
The general color is reddish-olive above, passing 
into yellow beneath; the quills and tail, dark 
plumbeous and dusky, tipped with yellow. The 
plumage is very soft and delicate, and its tints 
and shadings beautiful. 
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