258 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



SUBFAMILY AMPELIN^S. WAXWINGS. 



GENUS AMPELIS LINNAEUS. 

 Ampelis garrulus LINN. 



Bohemian Waxwing. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Length 7 inches ; wing 4* ; tail 2|. Bill (dried skin) bluish-black ; legs black ; 

 general color ashy or grayish-brown, palest on rump, upper tail-coverts, breast and 

 abdomen ; forehead, a spot at base of lower jaw, and under tail-coverts brownish or 

 chestnut ; a narrow frontal line, chin and upper part of throat, and a showy streak 

 starting in front and extending back of eye and meeting its fellow of opposite side, 

 black ; wings and tail feathers bluish-black ; the tail quite blackish immediately in 

 front of yellow tip ; primary coverts and outer webs of secondaries have white tips 

 (and in specimen before me also red wax-like appendages), outer webs of several pri- 

 maries edged with white and yellow. Head with a conspicuous crest; feathers 

 about vent white ; no yellow on belly. 



Habitat.^ Northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. In North America, south 

 in winter, irregularly, to the northern United States. 



Very rare and irregular winter vistor. I have a specimen which was 

 captured some few years ago (midwinter) in a pine forest in the northern 

 part of Elk county, where a flock of about twenty, it is stated, were 

 seen. Stragglers of this species have also been taken at irregular in- 

 tervals, during the past twenty-five years, and reported to me by the 

 following named gentlemen: Dr. John W. Detwiller, Northampton 

 county ; Dr. W. Van Fleet, Clinton county ; R. C. "Wrenshall, Allegheny 

 county ; H. W. Williams, Lackawanna county, and H. J. Eoddy, Lan- 

 caster county. 



Ampelis cedrorum (VIEILL.). 



Cedar Waxwing ; Cedar-bird ; Cherry-bird ; Quaker-bird. 



DESCRIPTION (Plate 39). 



Length about 1{ inches ; extent about 12 ; wing under 4 ; tail 2* ; head crested ; 

 general color reddish-brown, deepest towards the front; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 ashy ; belly yellow ; under tail-coverts white, and line of same on side of lower bill, 

 between black of chin and the black line extending from behind and in front of 

 eyes, and about base of maxilla ; primaries and tail grayish lead color ; tail tipped 

 with yellow, and immediately back of this yellow the tail is almost black ; the outer 

 webs of several primaries have silvery edgings ; no white or yellow spots on wings, 

 but secondaries may or may not have red horny ends to the shafts. 



Young duller than adults, and streaked with brownish, especially on breast and 

 sides. Bill blue-black ; legs black ; iris brown. 



Habitat. North America at large, from Fur countries southward. In winter 

 south to Guatemala and the West Indies. 



The Cedar or Cherry-bird, as this species is best known in Pennsyl- 

 vania, is an abundant .resident. These birds, except in the breeding 

 time (from about the last of June to the first of August), are always 



