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THE CONDOR 



Vol. XIX 



bit in the stomach of one specimen, the only mammal recorded. One bird shot 

 by Mr. Decker had been eating a Bob-white Qnail. 



Of the smaller birds the Bohemian Waxwing (Boniby cilia garrula) has 

 been the most numerous, these beautiful birds coming in flocks of as many as 

 five thousand. Although not unusual as a migrant east of the Cascades, this is 

 only the third record that I have for them on Puget Sound. The illustration 

 (fig. 47) shows a very small portion of an immense flock that I saw at Tacoma. 

 Berries of the mountain ash, madroiia, hawthorne, and other trees and shrubs 

 constituted their chief food; but one warm day, February 3, 1917, a number 



Fig. 47. Bohemian Waxwings in Tacoma, Washington, January 14, 1917. 



were seen hovering and swooping abGut high above the tree tops. Upon col- 

 lecting one of them the stomach was found to be packed with winged insects, 

 which it had secured with all the ease and grace of a flycatcher. The first to 

 be definitely recorded this season from Tacoma were taken by Mr. E. A. Kit- 

 chin and Mr. Stanton Warburton, Jr., of this city, on January 1, 1917. The 

 birds were undoubtedly seen by Mr. Kitchen a week or ten days earlier, but he 

 would not record them until he had one in hand. 



Another rare migrant, which also makes the third time I have recorded it 



