Cedar-Bird. Cedar Waxwing 



They are birds of remarkable affection and intelligence, 

 and their habits are peculiarly interesting. By lowering 

 and raising their crests they gain great variety of expres- 

 sion, and when about the nest often assume protective 

 attitudes, drawing themselves up to look like long-necked 

 bottles or sticks of wood, and sitting absolutely motionless 

 till one would imagine further endurance impossible. 



FLORENCE MERRIAM. Birds of Village and Field. 1 



These birds have even adopted the human symbol of 

 tenderness, and are often seen kissing each other. 



FLORENCE A. MERRIAM. Birds Through an Opera Glass. 2 



Dr. Brewer says of this species as proof of their devotion 

 to one another and their offspring: "Once when one had 

 been taken in a net spread over strawberries, its mate 

 refused to leave it, suffered itself to be taken in the hand 

 in its anxiety to free its mate, and when set at liberty, 

 would not leave until its mate had also been released and 

 permitted to go with it." 



FLAGG. A Year With the Birds. 25 



He has no song or call, uttering only a fine bead-like 

 note on taking flight. This note is the cedar-berry rendered 



back in sound But in lieu of music, what a 



pretty compensation are those minute, almost artificial- 

 like plumes of orange and vermilion that tip the ends of 

 the primaries! Nature could not give him these and a 

 song too. 



BURROUGHS. Locusts and Wild Honey. 6 



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