RANGE OF THE WAXWING IN AMERICA 467 



zona r for the species rest on tbis capture, and no other person 

 seems to have found the bird so far south and west. 



Though the Bohemians have scarcely been found in the Pacific 

 Province of the United States, the Kocky Mountain region, as 

 might be supposed, seems to be the main line of migration along 

 which the birds push farthest, as well as most regularly, into 

 the United States in winter. In 1860, Dr. Hayden took such 

 a large series on Deer Creek that we may infer he found the 

 birds abundant. In Colorado, according to Mr. T. M. Trippe, 

 the Bohemians are " abundant n in certain mountainous locali- 

 ties, as at Idaho Springs, from November or December until 

 March. Baird and Kidgway state, in their portion of the His- 

 tory of "North American Birds ", that the bird extends along 

 the Eocky Mountains and the plains as far as Fort Massachu- 

 setts (New Mexico) and Fort Eiley, Kansas. In the East, 

 records have multiplied of late years, but it is unnecessary to 

 analyze the evidence, as it shows nothing but what we have 

 already seen. For the Pacific region, I possess but a single 

 record, that lately furnished by Captain Charles Bendire, from 

 observations made at Camp Harney, Oregon, and published in 

 " Forest and Stream of February 17, 1876. 



From all the facts we have acquired, we make out an extreme 

 southern range of the species in America to about 35 north ; 

 its regular or at least normal occurence in winter in the region 

 of the Great Lakes to Northern Ohio, and in the Eocky Mount- 

 ain region to the State of Colorado; its irregular but frequent 

 appearance in Northern New England ; its casual presence in 

 severe winters in Southern New England, the Middle States 

 to Philadelphia, Southern Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, and Kansas ; 

 and its apparent scarcity in the Pacific Province. 



All this matter, it will be remembered, bears only on the south- 

 ward migration of the species in the fall from its boreal summer 

 home; we have seen how it wanders about, sometimes whirl- 

 ing in monstrous flocks over the country, and will turn to 

 consider a no less interesting aspect of its life. In days gone 

 by I used to ponder over the surmises I read respecting the 

 breeding-place of the Bohemian, gaining unconsciously a vague 

 idea that somewhere, perhaps in the very focus of the aurora 

 borealis, this mysterious bird swarmed to nest in a sort of 

 rookery ; but I have no doubt that when dispersed to breed in 

 the far North, it is no more conspicuous than the Cedar-bird is 

 with us under the same conditions. British America, to say 



