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CEDAR WAXWING. 



Cedar Bird or Cherry Bird, Nutt. Man., vol. i. 



Cedar Bird, Bombycilla carolinensis, Aud. Orn. Biog - ., vol. i. p. 227; vol. v. p. 494. 



General colour light greyish-brown, passing behind into ash-grey, before 

 into pale brownish-red, of which colour is the upper part of the head; a black 

 band on the forehead passing backwards over the eye to the occiput, and 

 margined above and below by a narrow white band; feathers in the angle of 

 the lower mandible black; abdomen pale yellow; lower tail-coverts white; 

 wings and tail dull leaden-blue, darker toward the end; primaries with a very 

 small pale yellow spot at the tip, secondaries tipped with an oblong wax-red 

 appendage, as are the tail-feathers, of which the extremity is bright yellow. 

 Female similar to the male, but somewhat 

 smaller. The oblong appendages to the 

 wings vary from nine to three. Young with 

 the upper parts of a uniform dull greenish- 

 brown, lower parts of the same colour, the 

 throat pale buff, abdomen and lower tail- 

 coverts yellowish-white. 

 Male, 6f, 11. 



From Texas northward to the Fur Coun- 

 tries. Westward to the Columbia river. 

 Extremely abundant in Louisiana during 

 winter. 



In a male preserved in spirits, the roof of 

 the mouth is slightly concave anteriorly, with 

 three slight longitudinal ridges; the palate 



covered with small papillae; the posterior aper- 

 ture of the nares linear-oblong, 4 twelfths in 



length, with the margin papillate; the tongue 



4 twelfths long, triangular, sagittate and papil- 

 late at the base, concave above, the tip horny, 



deeply slit, with two slender points. The 



width of the mouth is 5-£ twelfths. The 



oesophagus, a b c d, is 2 inches 9 twelfths 



long, its width at the commencement 5 



twelfths; it is presently enlarged to 7 



twelfths, and increases to 8 twelfths, of 



which width it continues to the lower pait 



of the neck, where it contracts to 3 twelfths; the proventriculus, c d, 



