THE NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY. I5I 



The Bohemian Waxwing is an irregular winter visitant. I 

 have not taken this species v*fithin •our area. On January i, 

 1896, I obtained a fine pair at Lake Forest, Illinois, and saw 

 about twenty more. A few days later, Mr. John F. Ferry ob- 

 tained a fine male at the same place. Mr. E. W. Nelson says :* 

 "An irregular but occasionally abundant winter resident, espe- 

 cially along the lake. In a letter dated March i6, 1876, Mr. 

 Charles Douglas, of Waukegan, describes an 'immense' flock of 

 these birds which he observed the day previous, upon the lake 

 shore near that town." In his Birds of Indiana,! Mr. Amos W. 

 Butler says: "Dr. J. L. Hancock informs me that March i, 

 1880, he shot two from a flock of eight that were feeding on 

 mountain ash berries in Chicago. March 30, 1880, over one 

 hundred of these birds were killed at Whiting, Lake County, 

 Indiana, and taken to a Chicago taxidermist. They were seen 

 by Mr. H. K. Coale. Specimens from that lot are in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Coale, Mr. George L. Toppan and my own." Mr. 

 H. K. Coale informs me that on December 4, 1880, Mr. R. A- 

 Turtle shot thirty of forty specimens, out of a large flock, at 

 Whiting, Indiana. 



The range of this species includes the northern parts of the 

 northern hemisphere; in America, south in winter irregularly to 

 Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona and 

 California. It breeds north of the United States. 



Ampelis cedrorum (Vieillot). Cedar Waxwing. 



Bombycilla cedrorum ViEiLtOT, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807, 88, pi. 57. 

 Ampelis cedrorum Geat, Gen. B., I, 1846, 278. 



Popular synonyms : Cedar Bird. Cedab-eaek. Cheeey Bied. Caeo- 

 LiNA Waxwing. 



The Cedar Waxwing is a common summer resident which oc- 

 casionally stays within our limits during the winter. The ma- 

 jority of them arrive the last of March and depart the last of 

 September. 



The range of the Cedar Waxwing includes the whole of tem- 

 perate North America southward, breeding as far south as the 

 southern states. It winters from the northern border of the 

 United States southward as far as the West Indies and Costa 

 Rica. 



•Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the- Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 103. 

 fTwenty-second Annual Report, Bept. Geol. and Nat. Resources, Indiana, 1897, 

 1002. 



