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CEDAR WAXWING. 
Cedar Bird or Cherry Bird, Nutt. Man., vol. i. 
Cedar Bird, Bombycilla carolinensis , Aud. Orn.Biog., vol. i. p. 227 ; vol. v. p. 494 
General colour light greyish-brown, passing behind into ash-grey, before 
into pale brownish-red, of which colour is the upper part of the head ; a black 
band on the forehead passing backwards over the eye to the occiput, and 
margined above and below by a narrow white band ; feathers in the angle of 
the lower mandible black ; abdomen pale yellow ; lower tail-coverts white ; 
wings and tail dull leaden-blue, darker toward the end; primaries with a very 
small pale yellow spot at the tip. secondaries tipped with an oblong wax-red 
appendage, as are the tail-feathers, of which the extremity is bright yellow. 
Female similar to the male, but somewhat 
smaller. The oblong appendages to the 
wings vary from nine to three. Young with 
the upper parts of a uniform dull greenish- 
brown, lower parts of the same colour, the 
throat pale bull’, abdomen and lower tail- 
coverts yellowish-white. 
Male, 63, 11. 
From Texas northward to the Fur Coun- 
tries. Westward to the Columbia river. 
Extremely abundant in Louisiana during 
winter. 
In a male preserved in spirits, the roof of 
the mouth is slightly concave anteriorly, with 
three slight longitudinal ridges ; the palate 
covered with small papillae ; the posterior 
aperture of the nares linear-oblong, 4 twelfths 
in length, with the margin papillate ; the 
tongue 4 twelfths long, triangular, sagittate 
and papillate at the base, concave above, the 
tip horny, deeply slit, with two slender points. 
The width of the mouth is 5J twelfths. The 
oesophagus, abed, is 2 inches 9 twelfths 
long, its width at the commencement 5 
twelfths ; it is presently enlarged to 7 
twelfths, and increases to 8 twelfths, of 
which wddth it continues to the lower part 
of the neck, where it contracts to 3 twelfths ; the proventriculus, c d, 
