ZOOLOGY. 
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Family B 0 M B Y C I L L I D AE . w ax wi n g s. 
AMPELIS CEDRORUM, Baird. 
Cctlar Bird. 
Ampelis garrulus, Var. /i, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 176C, 297.— Gm. 1, 1788, 838. 
Ampelis carolinensis, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197. — Bonap. Consp. 1850, 336. 
BombycUla carolinensis, Bribson, Orn. II, 1760, 337.— Aud. Orn. Biog. 1, 1831, 227: V, 494 ; pi. 43.— Is. Syn. 1839, 
165.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 165 ; pi. 245.— Wagler, Isis, 1831, 528. 
Bomhycilla ccdrorum, Vieillot, Oia. Am. Sept. 1, 1807, 88 ; pi. Ivii. — Ib. Galerio Ois. 1, 1834, 186; pi. cxvii. 
Ampelis amcricana, Wilson, Am. Orn. 1, 18U8, 107 ; pi. vii. 
Ampelis ccdrorum, Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 318. 
Sp. Ch. — Head crested. General color reddish olive, passing anteriorly on the neck, head, and breast into purplish cinnamon ; 
posteriorly on the upper parts into ash ; on the lower into yellow. Under tail coverts white. Chin dark sooty black, fading 
insensibly into the ground color on the throat. Forehead, loral region, space below the eye, and a line above it on the side of the 
head, intense black. Quills and tail dark plumbeous, passing behind into dusky; the tail tipped with yellow; the primaries, 
except the first, margined with hoary. A short maxillary stripe, a narrow crescent on the infero-posterior quarter of the eye, 
white. Secondaries with horny tips, like red sealing wax. Length, 7. 25 ; wing, 4. 05; tail, 2. 60. 
Hah. — North America generally ; south to Guatemala. 
The cedar bird is mucli less common than in the cultivated Atlantic States. I have only seen 
them in summer in pairs and small families, and suppose the greater part of those raised here 
retire to the more open regions southward in the fall. Their irregular migrations are probably 
induced by Avant of food. — C. 
Townsend says that this bird is found in Oregon. I have never seen it west of the Rocky 
mountains, but on several occasions have thought that I recognized its notes, Avhen the brush 
being so thick, or from some other circumstance, I was unable to obtain a glimpse of the bird. 
This was at Fort Dalles. I think the species does not visit Puget Sound at all. If it does, it 
must be very scarce in that vicinity, as all my efforts to obtain even a single specimen were 
fruitless. — S. 
MYIADESTES TOWNSENDII, Cabanis. 
Towmseucl's FlycatcUer. 
Ptiliogonys townsendii, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, May, 1839, 20C; pi. 419, f. 2.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 4G.— Ib. Birds Amor. I, 1840, 
243; pi. 09.— Townsend, Narrative, 1839, 338.— Nuttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 3fil.— 
Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. I, 1843, 261. 
Culicivora toicnsendii, DeKay, N. Y. Zool. II, 1844, 110. 
ilyiadesles townsendii, Cabani3, Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i, 208. — Bajrd, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 321. 
? Myiadestes unicolor, Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 299 ; 1857, 6. (Is very closely allied. Cordova Mexico.) 
Sp. Ch. — Tail rather deeply forked. Exposed portion of spurious quill less than one-third that of the second ; fourth quill 
longest ; second a little longer than the sixth. Head not crested. General color bluish ash, paler beneath ; under wing coverts 
white. Quills with a brownish yellow bar at the base of both webs mostly concealed, but showiug a little below the greater 
coverts and alulae ; this succeeded by a bar of dusky, and next to it another of brownish yeilow across the outer webs of the 
central quills only. Tertials tipped with white. Tail feathers dark brown ; the middle ones more like the back ; the lateral 
with the outer web and tip, the second with the tip only, white. A white ring round the eye. 
Length, 8.75 inches ; extent, 12.80 ; wing, 4.50 ; tail, 3.85. (8234.) 
Hah. — United States, from Eocky mountains and Black Hills to the Pacific ; south to the borders of Mexico. 
I obtained a specimen of this bird near Port Laramie, Nebraska, in October, when it was 
apparently not uncommon there, and had much the habits of the flycatchers. — C. 
I was fortunate enough to secure a specimen at Fort Steilacoom, Washington Territory, on 
