84 Birds of Massachusetts 



Amherst: "Formerly common, now rare." Berkshire: "Not com- 

 mon summer resident." Bristol County : ''Common transient visitant." 

 Rare local summer resident. Brookline . "Rare migrant." Cambridge: 

 Locally common summer resident. Dedham : "Rare." Essex County: 

 "Summer visitant. Common." Martha's Vineyard: "Uncommon 

 summer resident." Springfield: " Rare summer resident." Templeton : 

 " Locally common in summer." Wellesley : " Scarce and local summer 

 resident." 



229. Ampelis cedrorum (yieilL). Cedar Waxwing. 



An abundant spring and autumn migrant, and uncommon and 

 erratic winter resident. Rather common as a summer resident. 

 There appear to be two somewhat distinct spring migrations ; one 

 beginning in the latter part of January, and continuing through 

 February, and tlie second lasting through late April and May. 



Amherst: " Common .... summer resident." Berkshire; "Abundant 

 summer resident." Bristol County: " Common summer resident." 

 Brookline: "Common permanent resident, less common in winter." 

 Cambridge : Not common permanent resident, common summer resident, 

 abundant transient visitant in spring. Cohasset : "Abundant all the 

 3'ear, especially in' winter." Dedham: "Common resident; common, 

 though appearing very erratically in the winter." Essex County: "Com- 

 mon .... except the months of October, November and December." 

 Ipswich: "Abundant summer resident." Martha's Vineyard: " Com- 

 mon suinmer resident. Winter." Sjpringfield : " Common summer res- 

 ident." Often seen in winter. Templeton : " Common summer resi- 

 dent." Wellesley: " Common suminer resident, and common but irreg- 

 ular visitor at all other seasons," 



230. Ampelis garrulus Linn. Bohemian Waxwing. 

 Accidental from the north. The records are : near Boston^ in 



the autumn of 1832, Audubon's sons saw a pair, "which they 

 pursued more than an hour, but without success ; " ^ Boston, a 

 large flock of twenty to thirty birds was noted in midwinter about 

 1844 ; ^ W^liamstown, one shot prior to 1858, and now preserved 

 in the Williams College Museum ; 3 Bolton, eleven specimens were 

 captured by S. Jillson in January, 1864;* Cambridge, one was 



1 Audubon; Birds of America, IV, 1842, p. 106. 

 ^ Baird, Brewer & Ridgway ; Land Birds, Vol. I, p. 398. 

 ^Chadbourne; Williams Quarterly, Vol. V, 1858, p. 345. 

 'Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. Ill, NO. 11. Jan., 1870, p. 579; pp, 25, 26 of 

 separate. 



