328 CEDARBIRD. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Bombycilla cedrorum Vieill. (1807). AMPELIS CEDRORUM Gray (1849). Ampelis 
americana Wils. (1808). Bombycilla americana Licht. (1830). Bombycilla carolinensis Briss. (1860). 
Ampelis carolinensis Gosse (1847). 
DESCRIPTION: “Plumage peculiarly soft and smooth; head conspicuously crested. ‘Body-color shading 
insensibly from clear ash on the rump and upper tail-coverts through olivaceous-cinnamon to rich 
purplish-cinnamon on the foreparts and head, and through yellowish on the belly to white on the 
under tail-coverts. Forehead, lore, chin, and eye-stripe, velvety-black; a sharp mandibular line, one 
also bordering the black lore, with the under eyelid, white. Wing-quills slate-gray, dusky at the ends 
and pale on the inner webs, without white or yellow markings, but the inner ones with hard horny 
appendages, like red sealing-wax. Tail tipped with yellow, occasionally also having the waxy append- 
ages. Bill plumbeous-black, sometimes pale at base below; feet, blackish. ; 
Length, 6.00 to 7.00 inches; wing, 3.50 to 3.75; tail, 2.25 inches.” (S. & C., “N. E. B. L.,” 
I, p. 192.) 
! 
SWALLOWS. 
The Swallows, heralds of the Spring, 
Have come to us again, 
And my heart feaps to hear once more 
Their merry, twittering strain. 
See, see, 
With what abounding glee 
They soar, 
And now sweep down to earth, 
Making the wakened echoes ring 
With music and with mirth. 
The melodies that, in my heart, 
Slumbered the winter long, 
Wake, like the echoes, when I hear 
The gushing of their song. 
Her wings 
+ My fancy spreads, and sings; . 
The cheer 
Of these glad birds doth share, 
As swift they glide, and skim, and dart 
Along the liquid air. 
My fancy makes no eagle-flight ; 
Near the green earth she keeps 
Nor higher than the Swallows go, 
On light-some pinion sweeps. 
Her art 
Is but a thankful heart 
And so 
She pours her grateful words 
For God's gifts, life, and love, and light, 
And sings as sing the birds. 
W. L. SHOEMAKER, 
Ay tere 
