318 U. 8. P. E. Ej EXP, AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
AMPELIS CEDRORUM, Baird. 
Cedar Bird. 
Jmpelis garrulus, Var. 0 , Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 297.— Gm. I, 1788, 838. 
Ampelis carolincnsis, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197. — Bonap. Consp. 1850, 336. 
Bombycilla carolinensis, Brisson, Orn. II, 1760, 337.— Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 227 : V, 494 ; pi. 43.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 
165.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 165 ; pi. 245.— Wagler, Isis, 1831, 528. 
Bombycilla cedrorum, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 88 ; pi. Ivii.— Ib. Galorie Ois. 1, 1834, 186 ; pi. cxviii. 
vimpelis americana, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1608, 107 ; pi. vii. 
Sp. Ch. — Head crested. General color reddish olive, passing anteriorly on the neck, head, and breast into purplish cinna- 
mon ; 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. 
Hub. — North America generally ; south to Guatemala. 
I have found it impossible to describe satisfactorily to myself the peculiar tint of color pre- 
vailing on the anterior half of this beautiful bird. Mr. Audubon speaks of it as light grayish 
brown, passing anteriorly into light brownish red. Immature specimens lack the sealing wax 
tips. The young have the upper parts more ash above, the lower streaked with dusky reddish 
ash and white, except on the abdomen and under coverts. 
I am unable to discern any differences in specimens from western portions of the United States, 
California, Mexico, or Guatemala. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex 
Stage. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
of wings 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1617 
SM46 
7577 
7260 
4918 
5318 
5319 
3958 
3959 
4236 
7952 
7953 
3 
o 
July 5,1814 
Sept. 9,1845 
7.25 
12.00 
4.00 
do 
do 
3 
3 
Q 
Q 
G. Wurdemann. . 
6.50 
6.50 
7.12 
6.00 
7.00 
11.50 
11.50 
12.12 
11.00 
11.25 
3.50 
4.25 
4.00 
3.75 
3.75 
Yellowstone river, Neb... 
do 
July 24,1856 
Dr. Hayden.... 
.... do do 
Eyes dark, bill and feet 
black. 
.... do do 
Mar. 20, 1853 
April— ,1853 
Winter, 1853 
89 
It. D. Cutts 
J. Gould 
Sub-Family PTILIOGONIDINAE. 
Rictus with bristles. Tail long. Wings graduated ; the first primary always half or one-third the second, which is consid- 
erably less than the third. Nostrils entirely anterior to the frontal feathers. 
Ptiliogonys. — Head with a broad short crest. Oilmen considerably curved from the base. 
Bill broad. Tarsi slightly feathered at the upper extremity ; scutellate. Wings shorter than 
the tail ; the first primary very short ; the second and third much graduated, acuminated. Tail 
forked, the lateral feather graduated. Feathers narrow, linear. 
Cichlopsis. — Head with a long narrow crest. Culmen moderately curved from the base. 
