230 CEDAR BIRD. 



nate, acute tip ; lower mandible nearly straight, a little bulging toward 

 the end. Nostrils basal, oval, partially concealed by the recumbent 

 feathers. Head a;nd neck of ordinary size. Body bulky. Legs rather 

 short ; tarsus compressed, anteriorly scutellate ; toes scutellate above, 

 the outer toe united at the base to the middle one, the inner shorter than 

 the outer ; claws arched, compressed, acute. 



Plumage blended, soft and silky; an erectile tuft on the head. 

 Wings rather long, the first quill longest. Tail slightly rounded, of 

 twelve straight, broad feathers. 



Bill, eyes, and feet, brownish-black. A black band on the forehead, 

 passing backwards, tapering behind the eye, to the occiput, and margined 

 above and below by a narrow white band. Head, neck, and breast yel- 

 lowish-brown, or fawn colour, fading into yellow on the abdomen, and 

 yeUowish-white under the tail. Chin black. Back and wing-coverts 

 greyish-brown, passing on the lower back into light bluish-grey, of which 

 colour are the tail-coverts. Quills brownish-black, some of the secon- 

 daries tipped with a small flat, oblong appendage, of the colour of red 

 sealing-wax. Of these appendages there are also frequently some on the 

 tail, which is greyish at the base, passing into brownish-black, and ter- 

 minated by a band, of pale yellow. 



Length 6| inches, extent of wings 11 ; bill along the ridge ^, along 

 the gap I ; tarsus |. 



Adult Female. Plate XLIII. Fig. 2. 



The female is slightly smaller, and in external appearance differs 

 from the male only in being a little lighter in the tints of the plumage, 

 and in having the crest shorter. The waxen appendages also occur in 

 the female. 



The Red Cedar. 



JuNiPERUs VIRGINIANA, Willd. Sp. PL vol. iv. p. 863. Mich. Arbr. Forest, de 

 I'Amer. Septent. vol. iii. p. 42. PL 5. — Dkecia Monadelphia, Linn. Co- 



KIFERi£, JllSS. 



Tliis plant is very generally distributed in the United States, and fre- 

 quently attains a height of from forty to fifty feet, with a diameter of a 



