WITH BROWN PREDOMINATING 959 
lustreless sooty-gray plumage and entire absence of 
metallic coloring. 
In habits the two are very much alike, nesting in 
banks and congregating in flocks for migration. The 
Rough-winged are, however, found in small colonies, — 
seldom more than two or three pairs in a bank, — and 
are more apt to choose a gravelly soil than are the bank 
swallows. They are somewhat less timid also, and 
sometimes make their nests about buildings. The one 
essential seems to be running water, and crevices in the 
abutments of bridges are often filled with their nests. 
The hooked edge of the wings, which has given them 
their name, seems to be slightly less prominent in the 
present species than in specimens collected fifty years 
ago, and it is possible that this characteristic will become 
modified as their environment changes. 
619. CEDAR WAXWING. — Ampelis cedrorum. 
Famity: The Waxwings and Phainopeplas. 
Length : 6.50-7.50. 
Adults : Crest, head, and under parts soft fawn-color, changing to olive- 
yellow on flanks; streak through eye velvety black ; upper parts 
plain olive-gray, becoming blackish on wing-quills and tail ; the latter 
tipped with yellow; both tail and wings sometimes tipped with red 
wax-like appendages. 
Young: Similar, but colors duller, and under parts strongly, upper parts 
lightly, streaked. 
Geographical Distribution: Whole temperate North America, from 
Atlantic to Pacific; south in winter to Guatemala and West 
Indies. 
Pacific Coast Breeding Range : In the humid Transition zone of Oregon, 
Washington, and British Columbia. No breeding record for Califor- 
nia (Grinnell). 
Breeding Season: June, July, and August. 
