CEDAR BIRD, OR CHERRY BIRD. 
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above by a slender line of white ; another line of the same color passing 
from the lower mandible. The chin black, gradually brightening into 
greyish brown. The belly yellow ; vent white ; wings dusky-grey. 
Rump and tail-coverts dark ash-color ; tail of the same color deep- 
ening into dusky, and broadly tipt with yellow. Six or 7, and some- 
times the whole 9 secondaries of the wings curiously ornamented 
with small vermilion oblong appendages, resembling sealing-wax, 
which are a prolongation of the shafts ; occasionally these processes 
also terminate some of the tail-feathers. Many of these birds are 
destitute of these singular ornaments, which answer no economical 
purpose whatever to the individual. The bill, legs, and claws are 
black. Iris blood-red. In the female, the tints are duller. 
