Amfelis cedrorum as a Sap-sucker. — The Cedar, or Cherry-Bird 
seems never to be very abundant in this section of the State ; but early in 
the spring, when the birds first arrived from the south, I saw quite a large 
number of them, and observed what was to me a new habit. They resort- 
ed to the maple trees for the purpose of gathering the sap flowing from 
wounds made by the ice in the bark of the smaller branches. The birds 
would grasp a branch or twig with their claws, and partially swing them- 
selves under it and drink the sap where it hung in drops. For a week or more 
these birds were so plentiful and so intent upon their sap-gathering that 
one was almost certain to find a flock wherever there was a group of 
maples. I took considerable pains to ascertain if this habit was shared by 
any other bird, but did not observe a single instance. In the Eastern 
States I have often seen squirrels drinking sap from the branches in this 
way, but never before saw it done by a bird. — F. E. L. Beal, Ames , 
1 oiv a. Bull. N.O.G, 7, Jan, 1882, p. 
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Young £edarbirds and Great Crested Flycatchers in Captivity. — 
While in Tamworth, N. H., last July, I imprisoned two broods of young 
birds when just ready to fly, with ia view to seeing what their parents 
would do about it. One brood consisted of five Cedarbirds and the other 
of four Great Crested Flycatchers. I imprisoned the Cedarbirds on July 
io, placing them in an ordinary wire canary cage. Their cries, when be- 
ing caged, brought the mother, who first flew in my face and then perched 
on the outer edge of the cage as it rested on my knees. I put the cage 
very near the house, and it was only a short time before the parent birds 
began consoling the young with cherries ( Primus pennsylvanicci) . During 
the twelve days of their captivity the young were supplied with 8400 cher- 
ries, or one cherry a bird every six minutes. I ascertained the number by 
counting and weighing the stones left by them in the bottom of their cage. 
On an average the old bird or birds made 140 visits a day, bringing five 
cherries, each time. One was carried in the beak, and the others were 
jerked up from the throat one by one until all of the five young were fed. 
At their release the young were so tame that they returned to take cher- 
ries, from my fingers, but the old birds soon enticed them away. 
The young Great Crested Flycatchers were taken from their cavern in 
an apple tree on July 21, and placed in a wire cage which I hung in the 
next tree. I could see it from my barn door. The old birds would never 
go near the young if I was in sight. Concealed, I watched them with . a 
glass and occasionally saw the young fed. They were given harvest flies, 
dragon flies, and various beetles, and also smaller insects of which they left 
no fragments. I kept them caged until early in August. They were as 
wild on the last day as on the first, and if the parents changed their feel- 
ings towards me, it was only by i nte nsifying their hatred. — Frank 
BolleS, Cambridge, Mass. -i.uk* VII. July, 18 SO, p, 
The Qologist. 1635. The Cedar Waiving Eating Potato Bugs. By George W. 
Vosburg. Ibid., p. 237. Auk, Vll. Jan. 1890 . p. Vfe ■ 
jit. 1487. The Wax-wings. By W. L. Kells. ‘The Sunny South Oologist ,’ ' 
Vol. I, No. 1, March, 1886, pp. 1-2. -fi-tlll, Vll. Jan. 1890 . p. J TO- 
396. Notes from St. John, N. B. By Harold Gilbert. Ibid., p. 134. 
— Notes on the Cedar Bird, Golden-winged Woodpecker, Robin, and Bo- 
hemian Wax-wing as winter birds, etc. Qf, S 3 ©» V 7 )l« W H 
