84 Brrps OF MASSACHUSETTS 
Amherst: ‘‘ Formerly common, now rare.’’ Berkshire: ‘‘ Not com- 
mon summer resident.’’ Bristol County: ‘‘Common transient visitant.”’ 
Rare local summer resident. Brookline : “Rare migrant.’? Cambridge: 
Locally common summer resident. Dedham: ‘ Rare.’? Essex County: 
“Summer visitant. Common.” Martha’s Vineyard: ‘Uncommon 
summer resident.’ Springfield: ‘‘ Rare summer resident.’’ Templeton : 
“Locally common in summer.’ Wellesley: ‘ Scarce and local summer 
resident.”’ 
229. Ampelis cedrorum (Vieill.). CEDAR WaxwiINc. 
An abundant spring and autumn migrant, and uncommon and 
erratic winter resident. Rather common as a summer resident. 
There appear to be two somewhat distinct spring migrations; one 
beginning in the latter part of January, and continuing through 
February, and the second lasting through late April and May. 
Amherst: ‘‘Common.... summer resident.’’ Berkshire: ‘*‘ Abundant 
summer resident.’ Bristol County: “ Common summer resident.”’ 
Brookline: ‘‘Common permanent resident, less common in winter.” 
Cambridge: Not common permanent resident, common summer resident, 
abundant transient visitant in spring. Cohasset: ‘Abundant all the 
year, especially in winter.” Dedham: “ Common resident; common, 
> Essex County: “Com- 
mon.... except the months of October, November and December.”’ 
Ipswich: “Abundant summer resident.’’ Martha’s Vineyard: ‘‘Com- 
mon summer resident. Winter.’? Springfield : ‘‘ Common summer res- 
though appearing very erratically in the winter.’ 
ident.” Often seen in winter. Templeton: ‘‘Common summer resi- 
dent.’ Wellesley: ‘‘Common summer resident, and common but irreg- 
’ 
ular visitor at all other seasons.’ 
230. Ampelis garrulus Linn. BOHEMIAN WAXwWING. 
Accidental from the north. The records are: near Aosfon, in 
the autumn of 1832, Audubon’s sons saw a pair, ‘“ which they 
pursued more than an hour, but without success ;”? Boston, a 
large flock of twenty to thirty birds was noted in midwinter about 
1844 ;7 Williamstown, one shot prior to 1858, and now preserved 
in the Williams College Museum ;3 o/fon, eleven specimens were 
captured by S. Jillson in January, 1864;* Cambridge, one was 
1 Audubon; Birds of America, IV, 1842, p. 106. 
> Baird, Brewer & Ridgway; Land Birds, Vol. I, p. 398. 
Chadbourne; Williams Quarterly, Vol. V, 1858, p. 345. 
4Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. III, No. 11. Jan., 1870, p. 579; pp, 25, 26 of 
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