ORNITHOLOGY OF GUADALUPE ISLAND. 



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if they were of the same age it would be impossible to sep- 

 arate them. 



LIST OF SPECIMENS COLLECTED. 



No. 2419. Testes large. Iris orange, tinged with carmine around pupil. 

 No. 2459. Iris orange, tinged with carmine. 

 No. 2507. Iris carmine. 

 No. 2569. Iris carmine. 

 No. 2388. Iris orange. 



22- Ampelis cedrorum, 



CEDAR WAXWING. Christmas morning was the brightest 

 and fairest I enjoyed during more than one hundred days 

 of my sojourn on the island. Taking a stroll through the 

 small cypress grove in search of birds not before met with, 

 I was rewarded by seeing what I supposed to be one of this 

 species, but was unable to capture it. Nothing was seen or 

 heard of it again for more than a month, until one pleasant 

 afternoon, as I was engaged in preparing specimens in the 

 ;tent, I heard the notes of the Cedar Bird close by, and 



