The Bohemian Waxwing 
An observer in Utah 1 relates how an ill-mannered Robin, jealous of 
the good behavior of a company of these visitors, in an apple tree, set about 
to abuse them. “He would bluster and scream out his denunciations till 
he seemed unable longer 
to restrain himself, when, 
to all appearances, abso¬ 
lutely beside himself 
with rage because the 
objects of his wrath paid 
no attention to his rail¬ 
ings, he did the catapult 
act — hurling himself 
straight at the intrud¬ 
ers. Several of the Wax- 
wings, in order to avoid 
an actual collision, left 
the places where they 
were feeding, and alight¬ 
ing on twigs near by, 
paused for a moment, as 
if to observe the antics 
of the furious Robin, 
when they would resume 
their feeding. Their in¬ 
difference to the loud 
bullying protests of the 
Robin, and their persist¬ 
ence in remaining on 
the premises after he had 
ordered them off, so ex¬ 
asperated Mr. Red¬ 
breast that with screams 
of defiance he dashed 
from group to group 
without stopping to 
Taken at Claremont Photo by Wright M. Pierce alight, Until, exhausted 
A SPRING GATHERING ? ’ ’ 
quite as much by the 
heat of anger as by the unusual exertions he was making, he was glad 
to drop to a branch and pant for breath"—while the Waxwings continued 
to ignore the churl, as gentlemen should. 
There was a notable invasion of this species in the winter of 1892 
1 Rev. S. H. Goodwin in “The Condor,’’ Vol. VII., July, 1905, p. 100. 
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