1002 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



Vol. V., p. 118). Dr. J. L. Hancock informs me that March 1, 1880, 

 he shot two from a flock of eight that were feeding on mountain ash 

 berries in Chicago, 111. March 30, 1880, over one hundred of these 

 birds were killed at Whiting, Lake County, Ind., and taken to a 

 Chicago taxidermist. They were seen by Mr. H. K. Coale. Specimens 

 from that lot are in the collections of Mr. H. K. Coale, Mr. Geo. 

 L. Toppan and my own. Mr. C. A. Stockbridge, in 1889, informed me 

 that "About ten years ago" (perhaps the winter of 1879-80) "three 

 specimens were shot near Fort Wayne. Two of these are in the col- 

 lection of Prof. H. Duemling, at Fort Wayne and the third in my 

 own." Mr. Stockbridge has very kindly placed his specimen in my col- 

 lection. Prof. B. W. Evermann is certain he saw a, flock of a half 

 dozen in the cedar trees in his father's yard, in Carroll County, several 

 years ago (The Auk, January, 1889, p. 26). Messrs. Ulrey and Wal- 

 lace say there is a specimen in the collection of Mr. M. L. Galbreath, 

 at Collamer, that was taken near the Wabash County line (Proc. Ind. 

 Acad. Sci., 1895, p. 155). They are larger than the Cedar Birds, but 

 resemble them in appearance and habits. 



Mr. F. M. Woodruff, of Chicago, 111., writes me that several Bohe- 

 mian Waxwings were killed January 1, 1896, from a flock of fifteen or 

 twenty at Lake Forest, 111. Two days later another one was taken near 

 the same place. 



*244. (619) Ampelis cedrorum (VIKILL.). 



Cedar Waxwing. 

 Synonyms, CEDAR BIRD, CHERRY BIRD. 



Adult. Conspicuously crested; forehead, chin and stripe through 

 the eye, black, the latter bordered above and the black forehead 

 behind with white; lower eyelid and stripe on each side of the throat, 

 white; general color, grayish-brown; tail-coverts and wings, ashy; tail, 

 blackish toward the end and tipped with yellow; secondaries, and 

 sometimes the tail feathery with red, wax-like tips; belly, yellowish; 

 lower tail-coverts, white. Immature. More grayish, with indistinct 

 whitish streaks; chin, not black; belly, dingy whitish; no red, waxen 

 tips. 



Length, 6.50-7.50; wing, 3.60-3.90; tail, 2.30-2.60. 



RANGE. North America, Honduras and Jamaica to Labrador and 

 fur countries. Breeds from Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky and Arizona north. Winters from Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan 

 and Ontario south. 



