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AMPELIS GAERULUS, BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



Eiver).— Bd., Eev. i, 1866, 405.— Wheat., Ohio Agric. Eep. 1860 (Northern Ohio, 

 "often taken in winter"). — C.oop., Pr. Ca). Acad, ii, 1861, 122 (Fort Mojave, 

 * Colorado River, Arizona ; southernmost locality on record). — Verr., Pr. Ess. 



Inst, iii, 158 (Maine ; accidental in winter, and rare). — Boardm., Pr. IBost. See. 

 ix, 1862, 126 (Calais, Maine). — Ai,len, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 66 (accidental 

 winter visitant, Springfield, Massachusetts). — CouES, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1868, 

 276 (New England ; rare and irregular in the north, accidental in the south to 

 Connecticut; Dr. Wood). — Lawr., Ann. Lye. viii, 1866, 285 (New York). — 

 TuRNB., B. E. Pa. 1869, 42 ("occasional near Philadelphia; not uucornmon on 

 Lake Superior")— D all & B.ixx., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 280 ^breeding at Fort 

 Yukon).- Allen, Am. Nat. 1869, 579 (Southern New England).— Aiken, Pr. 

 Bost. Soo. 1872, 198 (mountains of Colorado). — Coop., Pr. Cal. Acad. 1870, 75 ; 

 B. Cal. i, 1870, 127.— Mayx., Guide, 1870, 107 (Massachusetts).— CouBS, Key, 

 1872, 115, fig. 55. 



jBonibycivora garrula, Temm., Man. i, 1815, 77. — Nadji., Vog. Deutschl. ii, 1822, 143. 



Bombydlla garrula, JBp., Zool. Jouni. iii, 1828, pi. 16, f. 2.— Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 

 237.— NoTT., Man. i, 1832, 579.— Atjd., Orn. Biog. iv, 1838, 462, pi. 363 ; Syn. 

 1839, 165 ; B. Am. iv, 1842, 169, pi. 946.— Peab., Eep. B. Mass. 1839, 290.— GiR., 

 B. L. 1. 1844, 165.— PUTN., Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 185C, 228.— Maxim., J. f. 0. vi, 1858, 188. 



Bornbyciphora polioccelia, Meyer, Vog. Liv- n. Esthl. 1815, 104. 



Bombycilla boheniica, Briss.— Leach, Cat. 1816, 18.— Eyt., Cat. 8.— Brehm., V.D. 219. 



Partis tomiycilla, Pall., Zoog. E.-A. i, 548. 



JSai. — A species of circunipolar distribution, wandering irregularly southward in 

 flocks, in winter, to about 35° north in America. 



List of specimens. 



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A fine series of this species, not very common in American collections, 

 was taken on Deer Creek in winter. Prof. Baird mentions that Mr. 

 Drexler saw " millions" on Powder Eiver, in flocks "rivalling in extent 

 those of the Wild Pigeon." 



The singularly erratic movements of this species are well known, but 

 not so easily accounted for, since the exigencies of the weather and 

 scarcity of food do not seem sufScient, in every instance, to explain the 

 case. It seems, however, most nearly parallel with that of the Wild 

 Pigeon. The occasional occurrence of the bird in small numbers in 

 winter, through jSTew England and the other Atlantic States, as tar as 

 Philadelphia, is noticed in the records above quoted. The only Eastern 

 United States region where it seems to be of regular occurrence in win- 

 ter, is the vicinity of the Great Lakes. Mr. T. Mcllwraith reports (Proc. 

 Ess. lust, v, 1866, 87), that at Hamilton, Canada West, it is a winter 

 visitant, "sometimes appearing in vast flocks, and not seen again for 

 several years." We also have advices from Kansas, and from the Colo- 

 rado Valley, latitude 35°. We have no United States record from the 

 Pacific coast, but Dr. Cooper gives an interesting note in his later work, 

 above quoted : "It is probable," he says, "that they reside, during sum- 

 mer, about the summits of the loftiest mountains of the interior ranges, 

 if not of the Sierra Xevada, as 1 have seen them in September at Fort 

 Laramie, and the specimen obtained on the Colorado was a straggler from 

 some neighboring mountains. It appeared January 10th, alter a stormy 

 period which had whitened the tops of the mountains with snow, and 

 was alone, feeding on the berries of the mistletoe, when I shot it." 



I am informed by Mr. Trippe that the species is "abundant durin 

 winter" at Idaho Sprin§i^/feffiStte)(V'«3rM9iB| daring the latter part o": 



