BlBDS OF NOKTH ANB MIDDLE AMERICA. 105 



red, preceded bj^ blackish; frontal antise, 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. 



Nidification. — Nest in trees, bulky, constructed of small twigs, root- 

 lets, 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. 



■Raifige. — Temperate and subartic portions of Northern Hemisphere. 

 (Three species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF AMPELIS. 



a. Terminal band of tail yellow; greater wing-coverts entirely drab. 

 h. Larger (wing 110-121); forehead and under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous; pri- 

 mary coverts, outer webs of secondaries and outer webs of primaries tipped 

 with white (the latter sometimes with yellow); throat black. (Circumpolar; 

 south to northern United States in winter. ) . . Ampelis garruluB, adults (p. 105) 

 hh. Smaller (wing 90-99); forehead wood- brown, margined anteriorly by a whitish 

 line; under tail-coverts white; no white nor yellow on primary coverts nor 

 remiges; throat brown. (North America and southward to Costa Eica. ) 



Ampelis cedrorum, adults (p. 109) 

 aa. Terminal band of tail rose red; greater wing-coverts partly brownish red. (North- 

 eastern Asia.) Ampelis japonica, adults (extralimital)a 



AMPKLIS GARRULUS Linnaeus. 

 BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



AdvUts (sexes alihe). — {a) Perfect plumage: General color soft drab, 

 becoming gradually more vinaceous or cinnamomeous anteriorly, more 

 grayish (pale grayish drab or drab-gray) on abdomen, sides, and flanks, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts nearly pure gray (no. 6); forehead, 

 superciliary region, middle portion of malar region, and under tail- 

 coverts cinnamon-rufous; frontal antise, lores, postocular streak, chin, 

 and upper throat velvety black; malar apex and narrow streak imme- 

 diately beneath posterior half (or more) of lower eyelid white; lower 

 abdomen and anal region pale yellowish or yellowish white; second- 

 aries slate-gray, darker on inner webs (except of tertials), their outer 



0' Bombycwora japonica Siebold, Hist. Nat. Jap., 1824, 13 (Tokyo, Japan); in Feruss. 

 Bull. Sci. Nat., iv, 1825, ?>1 .—A[mpelw\ japonica Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 278.— 

 Ampelis japoniais Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 217. — Bombycilla phcenicop- 

 terum Temminck, PL Col., ii, 1828, pi. 450. — [Ampelis] phaenicopiera Bonaparte, 

 Oonsp. Av., i, 1850, 336. This very beautiful species is much more closely related to 

 A. garrulus than to A. cedrorum. It is smaller than A. garrulus, buflike that species 

 has the forehead, part of the malar region, and the under tail-coverts cinnamon- 

 rufous, and the throat black. 



