464 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
b?. Bill broad, the width of upper mandible at posterior extremity of nostrils 
decidedly greater than length from nostril to tip; crest covering whole 
top of head, composed of broad, loose-webbed, blended feathers; adult 
males plumbeous, with black quills and tail, bright yellow under tail- 
coverts, and large white spaces on inner webs of tail-feathers; adult 
females like males, but plumbeous replaced by brownish or olive. 
Ptiliogonys. 
Gents AMPELIS Linnaus. (Page 463, pl. CXIIL, fig. 4.) 
Species. 
Common CuHaracTEers.—Crown with a lengthened, pointed crest, of soft, blended 
feathers; plumage very soft, the feathers of head, neck, and body perfectly blended, 
the prevailing color a soft fawn-color of vinaceous grayish brown, changing to ashy 
on rump and upper tail-coverts ; prevailing color of wings and tail slaty, the latter 
sharply tipped with yellow or red, preceded by blackish; frontal points, lores, 
streak through eye (running beneath crest, on occiput), and chin (sometimes 
throat also) velvety black; anterior portion of malar region white. Young much 
duller than adult, the lower parts streaked with brownish or dull grayish on a 
whitish ground. Vest in trees, bulky, constructed of small twigs, rootlets, etc., 
mixed and lined with feathers and other soft materials. Eggs 3-5, pale dull bluish 
or pale purplish gray, spotted and dotted with dark brown, black, and purplish. 
a. Tail tipped with gamboge-yellow; tips of secondaries sometimes with horny 
appendages resembling red sealing-wax. 
o'. Larger (wing more than 4.25); lower tail-coverts, forehead, and cheeks 
deep cinnamon or cinnamon-rufous; flanks brownish gray; primary 
coverts and outer webs of secondaries tipped with white; outer webs of 
quills tipped with white or yellow; length about 7.40-8.75, wing 4.40- 
4.60, tail 2.75-2.90. Eggs .92 x .65. Hab. Northern portions of northern 
hemisphere; in America, south to northern border of United States in 
winter, breeding far northward (and in northern Rocky Mountains ?). 
618. A. garrulus Linn. Bohemian Waxwing. 
b%. Smaller (wing less than 4.00); lower tail-coverts white; forehead and 
cheeks same color as crest; flanks yellowish olive; wings entirely 
plain slate-gray (except the wax-like tips to secondaries, in some speci- 
1 Ptiliogonys Swatns., Philos. Mag. n. »., i, 1827, 368. Type, P. cinereus SwAINs. 
The male of the single Mexican species (P. cinereus) is uniform plumbeous, becoming ashy on head, which 
fades to nearly white anteriorly; flanks bright golden olive, or oil-yellow, the under tail-coverts rich gam- 
boge-yellow ; eyelids white; ear-coverts and occiput (beneath crest) soft grayish brown. The female is grayish 
brown where the male is plumbeous, the flanks wholly light brown, the wings and tail duller black, white spots 
on inner webs of tail-feathers more restricted, etc. An allied Guatemalan race (P. cinereus molybdophanes, 
new subspecies) differs in having the plumbeous decidedly deeper, the flanks olive-green instead of oil-yellow, 
etc. The dimensions are nearly the same (length about 7.75-8.00, wing 3.70, tail 4.00-4.25). A very fine 
Costa Rican species (P, caudatus Caz,), with long and much graduated tail but very similar plumage, is the 
type of the subgenus Sphenotelua Barrp (Rev. Am. B. i. May, 1866, 412). 
