158 SINGING BIRDS. 
the young Baltimore), was his deafening and almost incessant 
call for food. Another young bird of the first brood, probably 
neglected, cried so loud and plaintively to a male Baltimore 
Bird in the same tree that he commenced feeding it. Mr. 
Winship, of Brighton, informs me that one of the young Cedar 
Birds, who frequented the front of his house in quest of honey- 
suckle berries, at length, on receiving food (probably also 
abandoned by his roving parents), threw himself wholly on his 
protection. At large day and night, he still regularly attended 
the dessert of the dinner-table for his portion of fruit, and re- 
mained steadfast in his attachment to Mr. W. till killed by an 
accident, being unfortunately trodden under foot. 
Though harmless, exceedingly gentle and artless, they make 
some show of defence when attacked; as a second bird which 
I brought up, destitute of the red appendages on the wings, 
when threatened elevated his crest, looked angry, and repeat- 
edly snapped with his bill. 
Almost all kinds of sweet berries are sought for food by the 
American Waxen-wing. In search of whortle-berries, they 
retire in Pennsylvania to the western mountain-chains of the 
Alleghany range ; and in autumn, until the approach of winter, 
they are equally attached to the berries of the Virginia juniper, 
as well as those of the sour-gum tree and the wax-myrtle. 
They also feed late in the season on ripe persimmons, small 
winter-grapes, bird-cherries, the fruit of the pride of China, 
and other fruits. The kernels and seeds of these, uninjured by 
the action of the stomach, are strewed about, and thus acci- 
dentally planted in abundance wherever these birds frequent. 
Like their prototype, the preceding species, the migrations, 
and time and place of breeding, are influenced by their supply 
of food. In the spring of 1831 they arrived in this vicinity as 
usual; but in consequence of the failure of cherries, scarcely 
any were bred, and very few were either to be heard or seen 
in the vicinity. In parts of New England this bird is known 
by the name of the Canada Rodin; and by the French Cana- 
diaris it is fancifully called Aecol/ez, from the color of its crest 
resembling that of the hood of this religious order. 
