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Family B MB Y C ILLID AE . Waxwings. 

 AMPELIS CEDRORUM, Baird. 



Cedar Bird. 



Ampelis garrulus, Var. p, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 1766, 297.— Gm. 1, 1788, 838. 



Ampelis carolinensis, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197. — Bonap. Consp. 1850,336. 



Bombycilla carolinensis, Brisson, Orn. II, 1760, 337.— Aud. Orn. Biog. 1, 1831,227: V, 494; pi. 43.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 



165.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 165 ; pi. 245.— Wagler, leis, 1831, 528. 

 Bomlycitla cedrorum, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. 1, 1807, 88 ; pi. Ivii. — Ib. Galerie Ois. 1, 1834, 186; pi. cxvii. 

 Ampelis americana, Wilson, Am. Orn. 1, 1808, 107 ; pi. vii. 

 Ampelis cedrorum, Baibd, Gen. Kep. Birds, p. 318. 

 Sp. Ch. — Head crested. General color reddish olive, passing anteriorly on the neck, head, and breast into purplish cinnamon ; 

 posteriorly on the upper parts into ash; on the lower into yellow. Under tail corerts white. Chin dark sooty black, fading 

 insensibly into the ground color on the throat. Forehead, loral region, space below the eye, and a line above it on the side of the 

 head, intense black. Quills and tail dark plumbeous, passing behind into dusky ; the tail tipped with yellow; the primaries, 

 except the first, margined with hoary. A short maxillary stripe, a narrow crescent on the infero-posterior quarter of the eye, 

 white. Secondaries with horny tips, like red sealing wax. Length, 7. 25; wmg, 4. 05; tail, 2. 60. 

 Hob. — North America generally ; south to Guatemala. 



The cedar bird is much less common than in the cultivated Atlantic States. I have only seen 

 them in summer in pairs and small families, and suppose the greater part of those raised here 

 retire to the more open regions southward in the fall. Their irregular migrations are jsrobably 

 induced by want of food. — -C. 



Townsend says that this bird is found in Oregon. I have never seen it west of the Rocky 

 mountains, but on several occasions have thought that I recognized its notes, when the brush 

 being so thick, or from some other circumstance, I was unable to obtain a glimpse of the bird. 

 This was at Fort Dalles. I think the species does not visit Puget Sound at all. If it does, it 

 must be very scarce in that vicinity, as all my efforts to obtain even a single specimen were 

 fruitless. — S. 



MYIADESTES TOWNSENDII, Cabanis. 



To'wnseud's Flycatcher. 



rUUogonys tmimaendii, AuD. Cm. Biog. V, May, 1839, 20S; pi. 419, f. 2.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 4G.— Is. Birds Amer. I, 1840, 

 243; pi. C9.— Townsend, Narrative, 1839, 338.— Nuttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 3G1.— 

 Gambel, Pi-. A. N. Sc. I, 1843, 261. 



Oulicivora toumsendii, DeKat, N. Y. Zool. II, 1844, 110. 



Jilyiadesies toumsendii, Cabanis, Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i, 208. — Baird, Gen. Kep. Birds, p. 321. 



9 Myiadesles nnicolor, Sciateb, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1850, 299 ; 1857, 5. (Is very closely allied. Cordova Mexico.) 



Sp. Ch. — Tail rather deeply forked. Exposed portion of spurious quill less than one-third that of the second ; fourth quill 

 longest ; second a little longer than the sixth. Head not crested. General color bluish ash, paler beneath ; under wing coverta 

 white. Quills with a brownish yellow bar at the ba.se of both webs mostly concealed, but showing a little below the greater 

 coverts and alulae ; this succeeded by a bar of du.sky, and next to it another of brownish yellow across the outer webs of the 

 central quills only. Tertials tipped with white. Tail feathers dark brown ; the middle ones more like the back ; the lateral 

 with the outer web and tip, the second with the tip only, white. A white ring round the eye. 



Length, 8.75 inches ; extent, 12.80 ; wing, 4.50 ; tail, 3.85. (8234.) 



Uab. — United States, from Kocky mountains and Black HUls to the Pacific ; south to the borders of Mexico. 



I obtained a specimen of this bird near Fort Laramie, Nebraska, in October, when it was 

 apparently not uncommon there, and had much the habits of the flycatchers. — C. 



I was fortunate enough to secure a specimen at Fort Steilacoom, Washington Territory, on 



