Vol. XXVIII 



1911 J Saunders, Nestitig of the Cedar Waxwing. 323 



I also made an attempt to find out just where the great flight 

 seen off Duxbury bar crossed Cape Cod. Dr. Coffin is sure that 

 none of the flocks which he saw on November 28 were Brant, as 

 from his vantage point he had been watching Brant for weeks, and 

 was armed besides with powerful glasses. 



Some enquiries were made for me at various points east of Ply- 

 mouth, from Manomet to West Barnstable, but at no place was more 

 than about 1000 geese noted in any one day. West Barnstable 

 pond gunners reported more geese than for many years, and large 

 numbers were seen at Manomet Point and Great South Pond, 

 Plymouth. The same story was obtained as to an unusual flight 

 during the last of November and early December at Great Herring 

 Pond, Plymouth, Mashpee Lake, Mashpee, and Mystic Lake, 

 Barnstable. Hence it seems certain that more geese crossed east 

 of Buzzard's Bay than is usually the case. It also appears that 

 the great Plymouth flight of November 28 must have dispersed 

 somewhat as it reached land, because no other points, as far as I 

 have been able to learn, witnessed such a concentrated migration. 



A STUDY OF THE NESTING OF THE CEDAR WAXWING. 



BY ARETAS A. SAUNDERS. 



Probably all our accounts of the life history of the Cedar Wax- 

 wing (Bombycilla ccdrorum) mention the flocking habits of this 

 species. Most of them also include the statement that during 

 the nesting season this habit ceases and the birds separate in pairs. 

 In my own experience, however, the flocking habit often continues 

 throughout the nesting season, the nests being placed, if not in 

 actual colonies, at least in close proximity to each other, and the 

 nesting birds often congregating in small flocks. One of my earliest 

 bird-nesting memories is that of finding a number of Waxwing 

 nests in the same apple orchard. In August, 1906, however, I 

 found the best illustration of this habit I have seen, when I dis- 



