350 THE CEDAR WAXWING. 
scribes as having been placed in an alder at a height of eight feet, and it con- 
tained four eggs on the point of hatching. The brooding bird allowed a close 
approach while upon the nest, but was not seen again after being once flushed. 
No. 134. 
CEDAR WAXWING. 
V A. O. U. No. 619. Bombycilla cedrorum Vieill. 
Synonyms.—CEDAR-BIRD. CHERRY-BIRD. CAROLINA WAXWING. LESSER 
WAXWING. 
Description.—Adults: A conspicuous crest; extreme forehead, lores, and 
line thru eye velvety-black; chin blackish, fading rapidly into the rich grayish- 
brown of remaining fore-parts and head; a narrow whitish line bordering the 
black on the forehead and the blackish of the chin; back darker, shading thru 
ash of rump to blackish-ash of tail; tail-feathers abruptly tipped with gamboge 
yellow ; belly sordid yellow ; under tail-coverts white; wings slaty-gray, primaries 
narrowly edged with whitish; secondaries and inner quills without white mark- 
ings, but bearing tips of red “‘sealing-wax”; the tail-feathers are occasionally 
found with the same curious, horny appendages; bill black; feet plumbeous. 
Sexes alike, but considerable individual variation in number and size of waxen 
tips. Young, streaked everywhere with whitish, and usually without red tips. 
Length 6.50-7.50 (165.1-190.5) ; wing 3.70 (94) ; tail 2.31 (58.7) ; bill .40 (10.2). 
Recognition Marks.—Sparrow size; soft grayish-brown plumage; crest; 
red sealing-wax tips on secondaries; belly yellow; wings without white bars or 
spots, as distinguished from preceding species. 
Nesting.—Nest, a bulky affair of leaves, grasses, bark-strips and trash, well 
lined with rootlets and soft materials; placed in crotch or horizontally saddled 
on limb of orchard or evergreen tree. Eggs, 3-6, dull grayish blue or putty-color, 
marked sparingly with deep-set, rounded spots of umber or black. Av. size, 
86x .61 (21.8x15.5). Season: June, July; two broods. 
General Range.—North America at large, from the Fur Countries south- 
ward. In winter from the northern border of the United States south to the West 
Indies and Costa Rica. Breeds from Virginia, Kansas, Oregon, etc., northward. 
Range in Washington.—Of regular occurrence in the State, but irregular 
or variable locally. Resident, but less common in winter. 
Authorities.—Ampelis cedrorum Baird, Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pac. 
R. R. Surv. XU. pt 1 1860; p: 187. 2. C&s. Rh: Dz. Kb. Ra. D25Ss2) KiB ae 
Specimens.—(U. of W.) Prov. P. B. E. 
ONE does not care to commit himself in precise language upon the range 
of the Cedarbird, or to predict that it will be found at any given spot in a 
given season. The fact is, Cedarbirds are gypsies of the feathered kind. 
There are always some of them about somewhere, but their comings and goings 
are not according to any fixed law. A company of Cedarbirds may throng the 
