6. Ampelis garrulus, Gmel. Dr. Frederic Lente, of Cold Spring, 
showed me a beautiful Waxwing of this species which was shot near his 
residence, several winters before. 
His son, Wm. K. Lente, informed me that he shot at several Bohemian 
Waxwings that sat in an evergreen tree close to their house. This oc- 
curred several years after the first specimen was taken. — Edgar A. 
Mearns, Highland Falls, New York. 
Bull, N, O.O. 3, Jan. , 1878. p, 
The Bohemian Waxwing in Northern New York. — I am 
indebted to Mr. George A. Davis for information regarding the occurrence 
of these beautiful birds in Mexico, Oswego Co., N Y. 
He first discovered them January 81, 1880, about a mile from the lake 
shore, in a section of country where the mountain-ash was abundant. A 
flock of some two hundred birds were feeding on the berries, in company 
with the Cedar Birds, and he captured a number. On February 2, he 
again visited the same locality, and shot twenty-three specimens ; this 
time no Cedar Birds were seen. After feeding, the flock would retire to a 
deep swamp, where they would remain until again hungry, when they 
would return until the berries were nearly exhausted. 
Mr. Davis has never before seen the Waxwings in flocks in his locality, 
but shot a single specimen in 1876. In all, he shot seventy specimens; 
and out of some twenty-five which I examined, but few were in full- 
adult plumage. Mr. Boardman writes me, that about a dozen birds in 
immature plumage were taken near St. Stephens, N. B., early in December, 
and that he has heard of them occurring all the way from Nova Scotia to 
Oregon, though I judge not in the southern parts of the New England 
and Middle States. — Rutiiven Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 
Bull. N, 0,0, 5, April, 1880. p. / 
239. Northern Waxwing. — {Am,pelis _ , 
garrulus.) (Lin.) A rare winter visitant. Not 
recorded from this section previous to the 
winter of 1879-80. In December, ’79, MrN 
J. Hunter, of this place, observed a flock 
of sixteen of these beautiful birds in a 
mountain ash tree, about a half mile from 
Sterling, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Of these he 
shot twelve. Noticing the white marking 
on their wings, and supposing this to be an 
albinistic form of the Cedar Waxwing, he 
preserved the two best and brought them 
to Auburn. These, coming into the pos- 
session of Mr. Wright, were at once iden- 
tified. Two more specimens of this bird 
were taken about Christmas time of the 
same year at Pemi Yan, N. Y., by Reuben 
Wood" ( Gilbert p °* VJ1 - JuE - *882 . V .'/* 
