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Family Ampelidae* Waxwings etc. 



Subfamily Ampelinae. Waxwings. 



618. Ampelis gareulus Linn. Bohemian Waxwings. 

 BombycUla garrula. Bohemian Chatterer. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of Northern Hemisphere, breed- 

 ing in coniferous forests of the Boreal Life Zone; in winter 

 irregularly southward; in America to Connecticut, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, 

 northern California; breeding from Fort Churchill in Kewatin 

 and from Athabasca and western Alberta to Alaska. 



In Missouri a very rare winter visitant as far as known at 

 present. One killed near New Haven, Franklin Co., in November, 

 1858, is in the collection of Dr. A. F. Eimbeck. Another was 

 killed in Platte Co, by Mr. John A. Bryant of Kansas City. 

 Mr. W. E. Praeger writes that two were shot out of a flock 

 near Keokuk, December 27, 1896. Mr. Chas. K. Worthen 

 writes that at Warsaw, 111., specimens were taken and small 

 flocks seen a number of times. The occurrence of the species 

 is reported from a point near the mouth of the Ohio, Villa 

 Ridge, Pulaski Co., 111., where, December 18, 1879, Prof. S. A. 

 Forbes took a fine specimen; this is the most southern record 

 in the Mississippi Valley. In Nebraska it has repeatedly been 

 taken in different parts of the state between November 15 

 and March 1; also in Kansas and Illinois, where a large flock 

 was once found feeding on Juniper berries, March 16, 1876. 



*619. Ampelis cedeobum (Vieill.). Cedar Waxwing. 



Ampelis americana. BombycUla americana. BombycUla carolinensis. Ce- 

 darbird. Cherrybird. 



Geog. Dist. — North America, north to Prince Edward Island, 

 Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia; 

 breeding from Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, 

 Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona northward and wintering 

 in whole of United States, south to Bahamas and through Mexico 

 to Costa Rica. 



As a summer resident in the sense of breeder, its usual meaning, 

 the Cedarbird is apparently rare in Missouri, although common 

 during a large part of our long summers. The species is with us 



