W A X W I N G S : Family Bombycillidae [ 485 ] 



dry grass in a slight depression protected by rocks on two sides and shel- 

 tered by one above (Plate 81, 5). The female was very tame and greatly 

 excited at the intrusion. Gabrielson, who was in another part of the 

 range at the same time, collected an adult and newly fledged young on 

 July 2.5 and 2.6, 192.4, near Swamp Lake and on the head of Last Chance 

 Creek, both points toward the western extremity of the higher ridges. 

 Since that time we have found this pipit to be a regular summer resident 

 throughout the range. 



We have no breeding records for the Cascades, although Jewett saw 

 these birds on Mount Jefferson on September 6 and 7, 192.5, and on Broken 

 Top on August n, 1933. We have at times spent considerable time on 

 Mount Hood and in the Three Sisters country without detecting this 

 species as a summer resident. 



Wax wings: Family Bombycillidae 



Bohemian Waxwing: 



Bombycilla garrula fallidiceps Reichenow 



DESCRIPTION. "Adults: Whole body, including high crest, soft fawn color, fading 

 to grayish on rump and flanks, and washed with yellowish on middle of belly; 

 forehead, cheeks, and under tail coverts deep brown; chin, lores, and eye streak 

 extending back under crest, velvety black; wings and tail blackish, wing coverts 

 extensively tipped with whitish or yellow, the tertials sometimes with red wax- 

 like appendages; tail with a terminal band of yellow. Young: duller; under parts 

 streaked. Length: 7.40-8.75, wing 4.40-4.60, tail 2.. 75-2.. 90." (Bailey) Nest: A 

 bulky mass of twigs, rootlets, leaves, grass, and mosses, lined with finer materials 

 and feathers and placed in a tree 5 to 10 feet up. Eggs: 3 to 5, bluish gray, spotted 

 with brown and black. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds from western Alaska, northern Mackenzie, and 

 northeastern Manitoba south to southern British Columbia and Alberta. Winters 

 south irregularly over northern United States and occasionally south, even to Cali- 

 fornia and Arizona. In Oregon: Irregular but at times abundant winter visitor. 



THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING is an irregular winter visitor over most of the 

 State but appears most regularly in the mountain valleys about the base 

 of the Blue Mountains. We have found it in at least small numbers in 

 the Wallowa Valley in many different years, and nearly every winter we 

 see a few scattered small flocks, usually in the Blue Mountain districts. 

 In the winter of 1919-10 there occurred a big invasion of these birds, and 

 they were present in numbers in Portland, Corvallis, and other points in 

 western Oregon as well as over most of eastern Oregon, reaching at least 

 as far south as Adel, Lake County, where Gabrielson collected a bird out 

 of a flock of approximately three hundred on April 3, 192.0. Again in the 



