426 Birds of Colorado 
also devours insects, catching flies on the wing like a 
Flycatcher. Its call is a lisping whistle. It occasionally 
visits the towns, and I have seen it in a suburban garden 
plot in Colorado Springs in October. It is not likely 
to be found breeding in Colorado, but its nest is a bulky 
structure about six to twenty feet from the ground in 
a tree, and its eggs, three to four in number, are blueish- 
white or greyish, spotted with lilac and dark brown. 
Cedar-Waxwing. Bombycilla cedrorum. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 619—Colorado Records—Aiken 72, p. 198; 
Scott 79, p. 93; Cooke 97, p. 111; Warren 09, p. 17; Henderson 09, 
p. 239. 
Description.—Sexes alike. General colour above brown, becoming 
more grey on the rump, and more cinnamon on the head and breast ; 
a narrow black band running through the eye along the base of the 
upper mandible ; chin dull black, paling on the throat to brown ; wings. 
dusky grey unmarked except for the red sealing-wax coloured ap- 
pendages to the shafts of the secondaries ; tail also dusky grey tipped 
with yellow; below, flanks and abdomen pale yellowish, under tail- 
coverts white; iris brown, bill black, greyish towards the base ; 
legs black. Length 5-5; wing 3-60; tail 2-10; culmen -40; 
tarsus -60. 
Some examples lack the red appendages to the secondaries, while 
some possess them on the tail-feathers as well, and have the yellow 
tail-tips narrower and paler, but this does not depend on sex or age. 
Young birds of the year are olive-drab above and mottled white and 
olive-drab below ; the black frontal band and the yellow tail-tip 
are present, but there are no red appendages to the secondaries as 
a rule. 
Distribution.—Breeding throughout temperate North America from 
British Columbia and Prince Edward Island south to Arizona and 
Virginia ; wintering over the whole of the United States, and also 
south to Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba and Jamaica. 
In Colorado tho Cedar-bird is far from common, though apparently 
a resident ; it keeps chiefly to higher elevations in summer and descends 
to the foothills during the winter ; Aiken observed it several times in 
early winter in El Paso co., and on one occasion saw a single bird on 
May 23rd, near Limon out on the plains; Scott found it breeding 
twenty miles east (? west) of Fairplay in South Park on June 9th at 
9,000 feet, and also observed it at Twin Lakes ; Warren reports that 
