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26, 1874. I observed a large colony of them at Newburgh, and an- 

 other at Poughkeepsie, several years ago; but I am iflformed that 

 their numbers have decreased very much in both cities since the Spar- 

 rows became numerous. 



Family, AMPELIDJE. 



59. Ampelis garrulus, Linne. BOHEMIAN WAXWING. A rare 

 winter visitant. Dr. F. D. Lente has a very handsome specimen in 

 his collection, which was shot near his residence at Cold Spring, 

 on the Hudson, several years ago, as I have previously recorded, in 

 the "Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club," Vol. Ill, No. 1, p- 

 46, January, 1878. 2 His son, Wm. K. Lente, informed me that he shot 

 at several Bohemian Waxwings that were in an evergreen tree, close 

 to their house. This occurred several years after the first specimen 

 was taken. 



This nomadic species is of exceedingly rare occurrence as far south 

 as this latitude, in the Atlantic States. Audubon furnishes the earli- 

 est record of its occurence, which reads as follows : 3 "In the autumn 

 of 1832, whilst rambling near Boston, my sons saw a pair, which they 

 pursued more than an hour, but without success. The most southern 

 locality in which I have known it to be procured, is the neighborhood 

 of Philadelphia, where, as well as on Long Island, several were shot 

 in 1830 4 and 1832." Since that time there have been a few recorded 

 instances of its capture in Southern New England, including Massa- 

 chusetts and Connecticut. DeKay, in treating of this species, re- 

 marks: 5 "The specimen from which our figure was taken, was shot 

 in the autumn of 1835, in the neighborhood of this city [Albany?]." 



Dr. Charles C. Abbott, in his "Catalogue of Vertebrate Animals of 

 New Jersey," (p. 774), 6 gives the following notice: "A northern spe- 

 cies, that is occasionally shot as far south as New Jersey. The author 

 has seen two specimens, one shot in Cape May County, the other in 

 Morris County." 



60. Ampelis cedrorum, (Vieillof). CEDAR BIRD; CAROLINA 

 WAXWING ; CHERRY BIRD. A common, gregarious species ; resident, 

 breeding abundantly. This strikingly handsome bird is numerous 

 with us throughout the year; but it is somewhat locally dispersed, and 



2 Dr. Lente has supplied me with the following particulars: "The Bohemian 

 Chatterer referred to was found dead, in Genl. Morris's grounds [Cold Spring], by 

 Mr. Wm. Paulding. I cannot give the year. F. D. Lente." 



s Ornithological Biography, Vol. IV, p. 463, 1838. 



4 Not 1831, as incorrectly stated by Dr. Coues, in Birds of the Colorado Valley, 

 Part First, p. 465, 1878. 



6 Zoology of New York, Part II, Plate 26, fig. 57, 1844. 



Published in Cook's Geology of New Jersey, 1868. 



