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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
preparing to eat my lunch when I again heard their notes, and in a few seconds 
they—or possibly others—appeared in sight and onelighted on the root of an upturned 
dead tree near enough for me to collect it as proof of the unusual observation’* (MS). 
To those who have worked in the mountains of northern New Mexico this record 
is intensely interesting, showing that these distinguished northern birds do occa¬ 
sionally cross the Colorado line in winter and may be seen, by rare good fortune, 
among the lofty peaks of New Mexico. 
Additional Literature.—Rathbun, S. F., Auk, XXXVII, 458-460, 1920 
(flock of 2,000 in Seattle). 
CEDAR WAXWING: Bombycflla cedrorum Vieillot 
Description. — Length: G.5-7.5 inches, wing about 3.6-3.9, tail 2.3-2.6. Adults: 
Body, including high crest soft fawn-color, deeper brown on anterior underparts 
From Handbook of Western Birds 
Fig. 103. Cedar Waxwings 
Eating leaf-destroying insects 
{chin brown), fading to grayish on rump and upper tail coverts, and becoming yellow- 
ish or olive on belly, lower sides, and flanks (belly sometimes nearly white), and under 
tail coverts white; tail and wings blackish, tail tipped with yellow, primaries tipped 
with gray, secondaries usually tipped with red tear-shaped wax-like appendages. (In 
imperfect plumage the wax-like appendages arc absent and the yellow tail band nar- 
