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4. First Nuptial Plumage acquired by wear which is not 

 marked. 



5. Adult Winter Plumage acquired by a complete post- 

 nuptial moult. Adults are somewhat grayer than young birds, 

 the primaries are edged with bright lemon-yellow and tipped 

 with white so as to form a sort of a terminal L and the waxy 

 appendages are more numerous, larger and better formed. 

 Young and old become indistinguishable. 



6. Adult Nuptial Plumage acquired by wear. 



Feinalcs. — The moults and plumages correspond to those of the 

 male. In juvenal dress the spots on the primaries are paler than 

 in the male and often wholly white, and the appendages few or 

 none. The black chin patch of later plumages is apt to be 

 smaller and duller than that of the male and the appendages 

 fewer, with paler spots on the primaries. 



Ampelis cedrorum (Vieill.). Cedar Waxwing 



1. Natal Down. No specimen seen. 



2. Juvenal Plumage acquired by a complete postnatal moult. 



Above, including sides of head and wing coverts, olive-brown. Below, paler with 

 darker broad fused stripes on the throat, breast, sides and flanks, the chin paler, 

 the abdomen and crissum dull white often yellow or buff tinged. A crest not 

 well marked is found on the crown. Anterior frontal feathers, lores and partial 

 orbital ring dull black ; posterior quadrant of orbital ring, submalar streak and 

 narrow superciliary line white or pale buft". Chin bordered laterally by dull 

 black. Wings and tail slate-black, the primaries ashy edged, occasionally 

 some of the secondaries tipped with bright vermilion wax-like appendages, the 

 tail terminated with a lemon-ye!low band, the rectrices also occasionally but 

 infrequently tipped with similar red appendages. Bill and feet sepia, becoming 

 black. 



3. First Winter Plumage acquired by a partial postjuvenal 

 moult beginning in September which involves the body plumage 

 and the wing coverts, but not the rest of the wings nor the tail. 



Similar to previous plumage, but the brown much paler and the streaking absent. 

 Above, including sides of head and throat silky drab merging into plumbeous 

 gray on the rump and paling on the crown where the feathers are basally white. 

 The crest marked. The abdomen and flanks are pale canary-yellow ; the 

 crissum white. Chin black merging into the brown throat. Narrow submalar 

 stripe and part of orbital ring white. Forehead at nostrils, lores, superciliary 

 stripe and part of orbital ring black. 



