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618. BoHEMiAH Wax-wimg (From Brebm). 



The Cherry-bird, Cedar-bird, Southern or Carolina Wax-wing, is found through- 

 out North America, as far as the wooded country extends, and breeds from Florida 



to the Red River country. It goes in flocks nearly the 

 entire year. The usual position of the nest of these 

 species is in a cedar bush or orchard tree, and it is often 

 placed in a sycamore, the distance varying from four 

 to eighteen feet from the ground. It is sometimes a 

 very handsome structure, being rather bulky, and 

 made of bark, leaves, roots, twigs, weeds, paper, rags 

 and twine, lined with finer grasses, hair and wool. 

 The nesting time is late — June, July and August. The 

 eggs range from 3 to 5 in a set, average .84x.61, and 

 are from a light slate to a deep shade of stone-color, 

 tinged with olive, marked with blotches and spots of a 

 dark brown and purple, almost black. A set of four 

 eggs taken by E. H. Huffman in Franklin county, Ohio, 

 August 19, 1888, is before me. The eggs offer the following dimensions: .93x.63, 

 .85X.65, .92x.66, .94x.65. These ?eem to be uncommonly large; a common size is 

 .85X.60 Inches. 



619. Cedak Wax-wing. 



