CEDAR-BIRD. 
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This species is also found in Canada, where it is called Recol- 
let, probably, as Dr. Latham supposes, from the colour and ap- 
pearance of its crest resembling the hood of an order of friars 
of that denomination; it has also been met with by several of 
our voyagers on the north-west coast of America, and appears 
to have an extensive range. 
Almost all the ornithologists of Europe persist in considering 
this bird as a variety of the European Chatterer {,A. garrulus), 
with what justice or propriety, a mere comparison of the two 
will determine. The European species is very nearly twice the 
cubic bulk of ours; has the whole lower parts of an uniform 
dark vinous bay; the tips of the wings streaked with lateral 
bars of yellow; the nostrils covered with bristles;'* the feathers 
on the chin loose and tufted; the wings black; and the markings 
of white and black on the sides of the head different from the 
American, which is as follows: — Length seven inches, extent 
eleven inches; head, neck, breast, upper part of the back, and 
wing-coverts, a dark fawn colour; darkest on the back, and 
brightest on the front; head ornamented with a high pointed al- 
most upright crest; line from the nostril over the eye to the 
hind head velvety black, bordered above with a fine line of 
white, and another line of white passes from the lower mandi- 
ble; chin black, gradually brightening into fawn colour, the fea- 
thers there lying extremely close; bill black, upper mandible 
nearly triangular at the base, without bristles, short, rounding 
at the point, where it is deeply notched; the lower scolloped at 
the tip and turning up; tongue, as in the rest of the genus, broad, 
thin, cartilaginous, and lacerated at the end; belly yellow; vent 
white; wings deep slate, except the two secondaries next the 
body, whose exterior vanes are of a fawn colour, and interior 
ones white; forming two whitish strips there, which are very 
conspicuous; rump and tail coverts pale light blue, tail the same, 
gradually deepening into black, and tipt for half an inch with 
rich yellow. Six or seven, and sometimes the whole nine, se- 
Turton. 
