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SINGING BIRDS. 
CEDAR WAXVVING. 
CEDAR BIRD. CHERRY BIRD. 
Ampelis cedrorum. 
Char. Prevailing color cinnamon brown or fawn color, changing to 
ashy on rump ; chin and line across forehead and through eyes, rich black ; 
wings and tail slaty ; tail tiijped with yellow ; secondaries sometimes with 
red, wax-like appendages. Head with long, pointed crest. Length 
to 7/4 inches. 
A'est. In a tree ; large and loosely made of twigs and grass, lined with 
grass, hair, or feathers. 
3 -S ; bluish white spotted with lilac and brown j 0.85 X 0.60. 
This common native wanderer, which in summer extends its 
migrations to the remotest unpeopled regions of Canada, is 
also found throughout the American continent to Mexico, and 
parties even roam to the tropical forests of Cayenne. In all this 
extensive geographical range, where great elevation or latitude 
tempers the climate so as to be favorable to the production' 
of juicy fruits, the Cedar Bird will probably be found either 
almost wholly to reside, or to pass the season of reproduction. 
Like its European representative (the Waxen Chatterer), it is 
capable of braving a considerable degree of cold ; for in Penn- 
sylvania and New Jersey some of these birds are seen through- 
out the winter, where, as well as in the early part of the 
summer and fall, they are killed and brought to market, gen- 
erally fat, and much esteemed as food. Silky softness of 
plumage, gentleness of disposition, innocence of character, 
extreme sociability, and an innate, inextinguishable love of 
freedom, accompanied by a constant desire of wandering, are 
characteristic traits in the physical and moral portrait of the 
second as well as the preceding species of this peculiar and 
extraordinary genus. 
Leaving the northern part of the continent, situated beyond 
the 40th degree, at the approach of winter, they assemble 
in companies of twenty to a hundred, and wander through the 
Southern States and Mexico to the confines of the equator, in 
