216 AMPELID^. 



Sericeo-cinnamomeo-fusca, dorso paulo fuscescentiore, uropj'gio clare cinereo, alls et cauda purpurasoenti-nigris, 

 illarum secundariis quinque aut sex rhachibus ad apices coccineo terminatis, hac flavo terminata, crista 

 elongata dorso concolori, fronte cum stria utrinque per oculos conjunctis nigris ; subtus mento nigricante, 

 abdomine flavido, crisso albo, rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 6-7, ate 5-7, caudse 2-4, i-oBtri a rictu 

 0-7, tarsi 0-7. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Pemina mari similis, secundariorum apicibus coccineis aut paucioribus aut absentibus. 



Hob. North America generally to between 50° and 60° N. lat. ^^, Texas ", Bermuda i^.— 

 Mexico l^ Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon (Couch''), Guanajuato {Duges^% valley of 

 Mexico (White ^, le Strange), State of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ^^), Jalapa (de Oca% 

 Cordova (Salle % La Parada (Boucard % Oaxaca (Fenochio), Tehuantepec (Swmi- 

 chrast^^); Guatemala (Skinner^), ridge above Mixco, San Juan Sacatepeques, 

 Duenas, Savana Grande, Escuintla, San Geronimo, Tactic, Coban, Cahabon, 

 Choctum 8, Dolores near Peten (0. S. & F. D. G.)\ Honduras, Siquatepeque 

 (G. C. Taylor ">).— Cuba 2 ; Jamaica 21. 



The Cedar-bird is a common winter visitant to Mexico and Guatemala, though 

 somewhat irregular in its movements, doubtless owing to the state of the seasons in 

 North America, its summer quarters. Though usually commoner in the highlands, it is 

 found at comparatively low elevations, both in Mexico and Guatemala. Prof. Sumi- 

 chrast has given Tehuantepec as one of the localities in the former country where it 

 occurs ; and in the latter we observed it both at Escuintla, about 1500 feet above the 

 sea, and in the pine-ridge of Dolores, in the department of Peten, which is at a still 

 lower elevation. In the hills round the city of Guatemala it is to be seen in some 

 abundance from autumn to spring, flying in flocks or perched on some fruit-bearing 

 tree. In the neighbourhood of Coban it is also a common bird. Mr. Taylor's is the 

 only record of the occurrence of A. cedrorum beyond the limits of Guatemala, he 

 having found it near Siquatepeque, in the Kepublic of Honduras 1°. Dr. Cones, indeed, 

 credits Dr. Hartlaub for the statement of its occurrence at Guayaquil ; but the reference 

 under which this statement is said to be made only mentions Cuba as one of the places 

 to which the Cedar-bird strays ; so that its appearance in South America has yet to be 

 recorded, notwithstanding the observation of Brewer, for which he gives no authority, 

 that the bird is abundant in the northern parts of South America and also throughout 

 Central America. As regards the Antilles, A. cedrorum can only be said to appear at 

 rare intervals in Jamaica and Cuba ; Mr. Gosse quotes Hill's authority for its occurrence 

 in Jamaica, a flock having been observed near Spanish Town in 1836. In Cuba also it 

 is quite a rare straggler ; but when it does visit that island it appears in flocks and not 

 as single birds. Its line of migration would seem therefore, as a rule, to follow the 

 land to the westward, and not to cross any wide expanse of sea ; but it has occurred 

 several times in Bermuda ^^. 



In the United States and in Canada Ampelis cedrorum is a very familiar bird ; and a 

 full account of its habits is given in the ' History of North-American Birds.' In its 



