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Family B MB YC ILLID AE . Waxwings. 



AMPELIS CEDRORUM, Baird. 

 Cedar Bird. 



Ampelis gamilus, Var. 0, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 297. GM. I, 1788, 838. 



Ampelis carolinensis, GOSSE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197. BOSAP. Coasp. 1850, 336. 



B&mbydlla carolinensis, BHISSOX, Orn. II, 1760, 337. AUD. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 227: V, 494; pi. 43. IB. Syn. 1839, 



165. IB. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 165; pi. 245. WAGLEE, Isis, 1831, 528. 



Bombycilla cedrorvm, VIEILLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 88; pi. Ivii. IB. Galerie Ois. I, 1834, 186; pi. cxvii. 

 Amptlis americana, WILSON, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 107; pi. vii. 

 Ampelis cedrorum, BAIRD, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 318. 



SP. Cu. Head crested. General color reddish olive, passing anteriorly on the neck, head, and breast into purplish cinna 

 mon; posteriorly on the upper parts into ash; on the lower into yellow. Under tail coverts white. Chin dark sooty hlack, 

 fading insensibly into the ground color on the throat. Forehead, loral ivgion, space below the eye, and a line above it on 

 the side of the head, intense black. Quills and tail dark plumbeous, passing behind into dusky; the tail tipped with yellow; 

 the primaries, except the first, margined with hoary. A short maxillary stripe, a narrow crescent on the infero-posterior 

 quarter of the eye, white. Secondaries with horny tips, like red sealing wax. Length, 7.25; wing, 4. 05; tail, 2. 60. 

 Hob. North America generally; south to Guatemala. 



The cedar bird is much less common than in the cultivated Atlantic States. I have only seen 

 them in summer in pairs and small families, and suppose the greater part of those raised here 

 retire to the more open regions southward in the fall. Their irregular migrations are probably 

 induced by want of food. C. 



Townsend says that this bird is found in Oregon. I have never seen it west of the Rocky 

 mountains, but on several occasions have thought that I recognized its notes, when the brush 

 being so thick, or from some other circumstance, I was unable to take a glimpse of the bird. 

 This was at Fort Dalles. I think the species does not visit Puget Sound at all. If it does, it 

 must be very scarce in that vicinity, as all my efforts to obtain even a single specimen were 

 fruitless. S. 



MYIADESTES TOWNSENDII, Cabanis. 



Townsend s Flycatcher. 



Ptiliogonys townsendii, ACD Orn. Biog. V, May, 1839, 206; pi. 419, f. 2. IB. Syn. 1839, 46 IB. Birds Amer. I, 

 1840, 243; pi. 69. TOWNSEXD, Narrative, 1839, 338. NUTTALL, Man. I, 2d. ed. 1840, 

 361. GAMBEL, Pr. A. N. Sc. I, 1843, 261. 



Culicivora townsendii, DEKAY, N. Y. Zool. II, 1844, 110. 



JUyiadestes townsendii, CABAXIS, Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i, 208. BAIRD, Gen Rep. Birds, p. 321. 



? Myiadesles unicolor, SCLATER, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 299; 1857, 5. (Is very closely allied. Cordova, Mexico. 



SP. CH. Tail rather deeply forked. Exposed portion of spurious quill less than one-third that of the second; fourth quill 

 longest; second a little longer than the sixth. Head not crested. General color bluish ash, paler beneath; under wing 

 coverts white. Quills with a brownish yellow bar at the base of both webs mostly concealed, but showing a little below the 

 greater coverts and alulae; this succeeded by a bar of dusky, and next to it another of brownish yellow across the outer 

 webs of the central quills only. Tertials tipped with white. Tail feathers dark brown; the middle ones more like the back; 

 the lateral with the outer web and tip, the second with the tip only, white. A white ring round the eye. 



Length, 8.75 inches; extent, 12.80; wing, 4.50; tail, 3.85. (8234.) 



Hab United States, from Rocky mountains and Black Hills to the Pacific; south to the borders of Mexico. 



I obtained a specimen of this bird near Fort Laramie, Nebraska, in October, when it was 

 apparently not uncommon there, and had much the habits of the flycatchers. C. 



I was fortunate enough to secure a specimen at Fort Steilacoom, Washington Territory, on 



