348 THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 
nesting site becomes at once the spring rendezvous, but the duties of maternity 
are not seriously undertaken until about the Ist of June. At the head of 
Lake Chelan some twenty pairs of these Swallows, having left the old nest- 
ing cliff a mile away, had engaged quarters at Field’s Hotel, being assigned 
to the boxed eaves of a second-story piazza in this pleasant caravanserai; 
but they had not yet deposited eggs on the 20th of June; 1906. 
Altho not formerly so fastidious—I have found cliff nests composed 
entirely of dried grass—these birds have become connoisseurs in upholstery 
of feathers, and their unglossed white eggs, five or six in number, are 
invariably smothered in purloined down, until we begin to suspect that our 
fowls rather than our features have favored our adoption. 
No. 133. 
BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 
A. O. U. No. 618. Bombycilla garrula (Linn.). 
Synonyms.—NorTHERN WAXWING. GREATER WAXWING. 
Description.—Adults: A conspicuous crest; body plumage soft, grayish- 
brown or fawn-color, shading by insensible degrees between the several parts; 
back darker, passing into bright cinnamon-rufous on forehead and crown, and 
thru dark ash of rump and upper tail-coverts into black of tail; tips of tail 
feathers abruptly yellow (gamboge) ; breast with a vinaceous cast, passing into 
cinnamon-rufous of cheeks; a narrow frontal line passing thru eye, and a short 
throat-patch velvety black; under tail-coverts deep cinnamon; wing blackish- 
ash, the tips of the primary coverts and the tips of the secondaries on outer webs, 
white, tips of primaries on outer webs bright yellow, whitening outwardly; the 
shafts of the rectrices produced into peculiar flattened red ‘“‘sealing-wax”’ tips; 
bill and feet black. Length about 8.00 (203.2); wing 4.61 (117.1); tail 2.56 
(65); bill .47 (11.9). 
Recognition Marks.—Chewink size; grayish-brown coloration. As dis- 
tinguished from the much more common Cedar-bird; belly not yellow; white 
wing-bars ; under tail-coverts cinnamon. : 
Nesting.—Not known to breed in Washington. Like that of next species. 
Eggs, larger. Av. size, .98x.69 (24.9x 17.5). 
General Range.—Northern portions of northern hemisphere. In North 
America, south in winter irregularly to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, 
southern Colorado, and northern California. Breeds north of United States; 
also, possibly, in the mountains of the West. : 
Range in Washington.—Winter resident, regular and sometimes abundant 
east of the Cascades, especially in the northern tier of counties; rare or casual 
on the West-side. 
Authorities.—Ampelis garrulus, Brewster, B. N. O. C. VII. Oct. 1882, p. 
227) =a) 
Specimens.—(U. of W.) Prov. P'. C. 
