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seen the remarkable red waxen appendages, showing, 
that their appearance indicates no particular age or sex ; 
many birds, in fact, being without these ornaments during 
their whole lives. I soon found my interesting protogee 
impatient of the cage, and extremely voracious, gorging 
himself to the very mouth with the soft fruits on which 
he was often fed. The throat, in fact, like a craw, ad- 
mits of distention, and the contents are only gradually 
passed off into the stomach. I now suffered the bird to 
fly at large, and for several days he descended from the 
trees, in which he perched, to my arm for food ; but the 
moment he was satisfied, he avoided the cage, and ap- 
peared by his restlessness unable to survive the loss of 
liberty. He now came seldomer to me, and finally joined 
the lisping muster-cry of tze tze tze , and was enticed 
away, after two or three attempts, by his more attractive 
and suitable associates. When young, nature provided 
him with a loud, impatient voice, and te-did , te-did , Jcai- 
tk-did, (often also the clamorous cry of the young Balti- 
more,) was his deafening and almost incessant call for 
food. Another young bird of the first brood, probably 
neglected, cried so loud and plaintively to a male Bal- 
timore-bird in the same tree, that he commenced feeding 
it. Mr. Winship of Brighton informs me, that one of the 
young Cedar-birds, who frequented the front of his house 
in quest of Honey-suckle berries, at length, on receiving 
food, probably also abandoned by his roving parents, threw 
himself wholly on his protection. At large, day and 
night, he still regularly attended the dessert of the dinner- 
table for his portion of fruit, and remained steadfast in 
his attachment to Mr. W. till killed by an accident, being 
unfortunately trodden under foot. 
Though harmless, exceedingly gentle, and artless, they 
make some show of defence when attacked, as a second 
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