396 NOinil AMHIIICAN IIIHD.S, 



Species. 



Common Ciiaractkrs. A U'li^rtlii'iuMl crest of sofi.lili'n(lo(l fi-atliors. Colors, soil 

 silky l)|-o\viiisli becoiuiiif,' liioiv viiiiiceoiis antcrioi'ly, and ashy iiostrrioily al)ove. 

 A Mack sti-i|H' on siilc of head, IVoni nasal leathcis across lores lhi'iiuy:li llie eye 

 and bciiind it henealh crest, and a pnlcli of the same on chin, with a whiter streak 

 between them, on side ol' lower jaw. 



A. Win;,' varie^'ated. Lciwcr tail-coverts rnfous. Crest innch dt^veloped. 

 Forehead and side of head hri^dit pnriilisli-nil'ona. Black patch covering 

 wliolt! throat, and sharply delined. No white lino between black of lore, 

 etc., and brown of forehead. Inner web.s of priuiaries tipped narrowly with 

 white. 



a. Terminal band of tail red. 



A. phcenicopterum.' tJreater cov(.'rts tipped with red, producing 

 a band across the winu:. Xo yellow on tip8 of primaries. Hah. 

 Japan and Eastern Siberia. 

 h. Tcnninal Ijand of tail yollow. 



A. garruIuB. Secondaries and primary coverts tipped with white, 

 forming' two broad short l)ands. Primaries with outer webs tipped 

 with yellow. Iluh. Arctic re^'ions of both hemispheres; in win- 

 ter south into northern United States, and alonjr Rocky Mountains 

 as far as Fort Massachnsetts, New Mexico. 

 B> Wind's unvaiie^ateil. Lower tail-eoverts white. Crest moderately de- 

 velojied. Forehead, etc., not dill'crent from crest. Chin only black, this 

 fading nrradually into the lirown of throat. A •.vliite lino between blank of 

 lore, etc., and brown of forehead. Inner webs of primaries not tipped with 

 white. 



a. Terminal band of tail 3'ellow. 



A. cedrorum. Wiiifr bluish-ashy. ILtb. Whole of North Amer- 

 ica, from 'yl° N., south (ia winter?) to Guatemala; Jamaica and 

 Cuba in winter. 



Ampelis garrulus, Lixx. 



NOBTHESN WAXWINO; BOHEMIAN CHATTEBEB. 



Lanitis (jarnthi.i, Linn. " Fainia Suecien, 2, no. 82." — In. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 17.58, 95. 

 AmiKliK (jKi-ndiiK, Ll NX. Syst. Nat. ]2tli (■<!. IVflti, 2!I7 (Emopc). — Baiiso, Birds N. 

 Am. 1858, 317 ; Hcv. Wa. — Boai-.dman, Pr. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist. IX, 1802, 120 

 (Calais, Mc). — CitorKii, Pr. Cal. Acad. II, 1861 (18(i3), 122 (Fort Mohave, Ar.). 

 liumhiH-iUu ijiirruhi. Box. Zoiil. Jour. Ill, 1827, .50. — Rim.— Am. Orii. Bio^'. IV, 402, 

 1)1. cccl.xiii. — In. Bird.s Am. IV, 169, pi. ocxlvi. — Mavnaud, B. E. Mass, 107. — Dam, 

 & BANXlsri:it, 280 (Alaska). —Coopkr, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 127. — Samcei.s, Birds N. 

 Eii<;. 264. Ihimlijicilla (jdi-riiht, Ki;vs. & Bi.as. VVirb. Kuropas, 1840, 167. — Dkolaxh, 

 Ornith. Europ. I, 184f», 34!) (Europcnti). — Woi.i.kv, Pr. Z. S. 1857, 55 (iiest and orcffs). 

 — Nkwton, Ibis, 1861, 92, pi. iv (nesting). —Nokdm ANN, Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 307, 

 and VII, 1859, pi. i (iicstiiif,'). (European.) 



Other figures : Bon. Am. Orn. Ill, pi. xvi. 



1 Bombi/cWa phmnicnptcritm, Ti:mm. PI. Col. II, 183S ; pi. 4.50. Tho A. phmxirnp/rriim is 

 stated by Temminck to have the nasd seta; so .short as to leave the nostrils exposed, and to lack 

 the sealing-wax appendages ; the latter condition may, however, result from the immaturity of 

 the specimen, as it is very eonnuou to find the same thing in individuals of the other species. 



