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One set of six eggs taken at Masonville, Middlesex Co., Ont. 

 June 30th, 1897, by Mr. J. E. Keays. 



Family XLVI. AMPELID.^. Waxwings. 

 CCXXI. AMPELIS LiNN^us. 1766. 

 618. Bohemian Waxwing. 



Ampelis garrultis L inn. i 766. 



A flock appeared at tlie Three-mile House, near Halifax, N.S., 

 in the winter of 1864-5, but none have been seen since up to the 

 time of writing. {Downs.) Some winters quite plentiful at St. 

 Stephen, N.B. {Chamberlain) Observed in winter at Harvey, 

 York Co., N.B.; rare. {W. H. Moore) Taken at Lorette; a 

 winter migrant at Quebec. {Dionne.) A rare winter visitaint at 

 Montreal. I have not seen them myself and have no recent 

 record of their occurrence in the vicinity of Montreal. {Wintle.) 



A winter visitor. It Js now many years since this bird has 

 visited us in large numbers. {Ottawa Naturalist, \o\. V.) But 

 seldom met with in the county of Leeds, in eastern Ontario. One 

 winter I saw two of them sitting on a rail fence and quite tame. 

 On June 14th, 1899, 1, found a nest in a rough, rocky part of the 

 country near Charleston Lake, Leeds Co., that I attributed to this 

 species. It was built in a crotch of a soft maple that grew in a 

 wet swampy place. The nest contained two eggs, measuring no 

 X 70 and 0'94 x '68. They are noticably larger than any cedar 

 bird I ever saw. They are of the same ground colour, but spar- 

 ingly spotted with round black spots. The nest was a firm, sub- 

 stantial structure, quite deep and built of rootlets, twigs and 

 fibres; not of grass and straws as most of the cedar birds have 

 been that I have seen. {Rev. C.J. Young.) Occurs rarely in the 

 Parry Sound and Muskoka districts in winter. Only visits Toronto 

 occasionally. When it does so it keeps well in the centre of the 

 city. A flock stayed on Wellesley St. a few winters ago and 

 could often be seen cleaning themselves in the snow on some 

 sloping roof or else feeding on the rowan berries that hung over 

 the sidewalk. (/. H. Fleming) About i8th February, 1895, 

 Toronto was favoured by a visit, in considerable force, of these 

 beautiful northern birds. While here they fed chiefly on the 

 berries of the mountain ash, and on 20th March I noticed num- 



