AMI'KIJDJO—TIIK r|IATTP:Ri:KS. 40I 



Ampelis cedrorum, S( l. 



SOVTHEBN WAXWING; CEDAS-BIBD. 



/1m/hli.<t gnmtliis, var. ^, Liw. Syst. Nat. I, 17()«), •J'.T. liiuithijcilln ctdrorum. Vif.ilt.ot, 

 Ois. Am. Stj.t. I, 1>(»7, >>, pi. Ivii. - In. Uahii.' Ois. I. 1»34, 180, \A. cxviii. — C.vb. 

 .I»mr. IV, 1N.'»»>, W (l'ul)ai. (Jindlach, ("alt. Jour. ISGl, :V1X <('uha ; rare). Jtuprlh 

 ni/ranmi, Srl.An.i:, V. 'L S. iS.'.tJ, •JKiMConlova^ ; IS.')?*, :{0-J (( laxaca ; Jaimarv) ; 1859, 

 ;k)4 (Xalai>a; Cordova) ; l^♦)4, 172 (City ofMfxii'oK — StLATKii tt Sai.vin, Ibis, 1S59, 

 l:{ ^(liiatiiiiala). - Baii:i», liinls N. Am. Is^.h, JUS ; Kcv. 4(»7. — Tayuh:, Ibis, IbtiO, 

 111 (Hoiitlm-as). - Makcii, I'r. A. N. Sc IMiila. l.st;:5, 21M (.lamaiia). - Lt>i;i), I'r. 11. 

 Art. Inst. Woohvith, IV, 11(; (British (.'oliimbia ; iiotiii;^'). CoorKi: & Sicki.ky, 

 r. K. Kt'p. XII, II, 187 (\Vasliiiijrti)ii T.r.). — Cooi'r.K, Oni. ("al. I. 1>70. 129.— 

 Samiki.s, r>inls N. Kiiy. 2(5"». Aminlix anierkaun, Wii.s. Am. Oru. 1, 18<»S, 107, pi. 

 vii. iioinhjuHhi innt rim lilt, .loNKs, Nat. iMrmuda, 18."»i>, 29 (wintt-r). — lllcn. Horn- 

 hiniUii r'tro/iihiisis, BitissdN, Oru. II, 17tiO, :;:',7 (not liiiiomialK - Ai'D. (Mil. Bio<<. 1, 

 18:31, 227, pi. xliii. Ir.. Birds Am. IV, 1S42, lU."., [.I. <(xlv. \Va<;lkii. Jmjxli.t 

 ciirofitutt.sis, (lossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, V.>7 (January). — BuN. 



i Sp. Chaii. Crest inoilt'rntc. 'loiieral aAifv soft viiiacfDiis-cimiamon, (IccjH'st antt'riorly, 

 more olivaceous 011 back, .si'apulus and winii-co verts, passing' into piii'e liirlit ash on the 

 rump and upper tail-<-t)Vcrts, and into (hniry yellow t)n llanks and al)d<»iu«'u. Lower tail- 

 coverts whito. Whole of the win;.? posterior to the irreater covert.s slaty-ash, almost black 

 Jilon;; end of inner webs of jirimaries. the outer webs of which ar«- narrowly edt^ed with 

 hoary vvhitish. Tail slat*- passing- into black terminally, tipped with a broad, sharply 

 delined band of framboLTi'-yi'llow. A broad stri])e of intense velvety-blaek on side of 

 head, startinj]: from nostril, passinjx across loie, and iuvolviuLT the eye. eontinued from it 

 beneath the crest to the oceiput ; chin dull I>laek, blendinji" gradually into the I'rownish of 

 the tlu'oat. A narrow white line acros;? the f<irehead and aKuiLT j^i'le of crown, between 

 brown of crown aiul black of lore, etc., a narrow crescent on lowci- eyelid and a stripe 

 between black of lore and that of the throat, white. Mah with each seeondary quill ter- 

 minated l)y a bright red horny appendaL-'c to tlu' shaft. Fentafe \v\\\i these very small and 

 few in mnnber, or I'Utirely absent. Ydihi;/. In Licncral appearance similar to the adult 

 female. Colors mor«' irrayish, with obsolete concealed whitish sticaks on nape and down 

 back, these strij)es bccomiiiiir very conspicuous on the siiles and flanks and across breast. 

 Xo black on chin. liump ijrayish-browu ; abdomen and flanks dini^y whitish. No appen- 

 datres to vsecondaries. and the yellow band across en<l of tail nairower than in adult. 



Hah. Whole of North America as far north as Lake Winn ipe;ir and Hudson's Hay. south 

 branch of Saskatchewan, latitude .VJ.V° (Iii< HAun.^^ox) ; south to (iuatenuila; Jamaica and 

 Cuba in winter. 



•A speeinioii from (Juateiiiala (Xo. rd),-!:.")^ c? ) is alniust identical with ex- 

 amples fitim tlie L'^iiiteil States, but <litl'ers in liavinu: a small s])Ot of yellow 

 at the tip of eaeli }nimaiv ; also tliere are red appendages on the tip of a 

 few tail-featliers, as well as the loiiL-est feather of the lower tail-coverts. 

 The colors, generally, are softer, tlie l)row n more purjdish, and the ash finer 

 and more bluish, tlian in a tine spring male from Washington, 1>. C. 



A specimen (Xo. r)o,:>l)H ^ , Humboldt Kiver, Nevada, September 10, 18(18, 

 C. King, K. L'idgway) from tlie Middle Province of the United States, dif- 

 fers considerably from any other in the c(»llection. The colors are mucli 

 paler, tlie anterior portions being almost oclnuceous, the wliole abdomen 



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