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U. S P. E. R, EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
AMPELIS CEDRORUM, Baird. 
Cedar Bird. 
Ampelis garrulus, Var. /? , Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 176G, 297.—G#i. I, 1788, 838. 
Ampelis carolinensis, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 197.— Bonap. Consp. 1850, 336. 
Bombycilla carolinensis, Brisson, Orn. II, 1760, 337.— Aud. Ora. Biog. I, 1831, 227 : V, 494 ; pi. 43.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 
165.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 165 ; pi. 245.— Wagler, Isis, 1831, 528. 
Bombycilla cedrorum, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 88 ; pi. Ivii.— Ib. Galerie Ois. 1,1834, 186 ; pi. cxviii. 
Ampelis americana, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1608, 107 ; pi. vii. 
Sp. Ch. —Head crested. General color reddish olive, passing anteriorly on the neck, head, and breast into purplish cinna¬ 
mon ; posteriorly on the upper parts into ash ; on the lower into yellow. Under tail coverts white. Chin dark sooty black, 
fading insensibly into the ground coloron the throat. Forehead, loral region, space below the eye, and a line above it on the side 
of the head, intense black. Quills and tail dark plumbeous, passing behind into dusky; the tail tipped with yellow; the 
primaries, except the first, margined with hoary. A short maxillary stripe, a narrow crescent on the infero-posterior quarter 
of the eye, white. Secondaries with horny tips, like red sealing wax. Length, 7.25 ; wing, 4.05 ; tail, 2.60. 
Hab. —North America generally ; south to Guatemala. 
I Lave found it impossible to describe satisfactorily to myself the peculiar tint of color pre¬ 
vailing on the anterior half of this beautiful bird. Mr. Audubon speaks of it as light grayish 
brown, passing anteriorly into light brownish red. Immature specimens lack the sealing wax 
tips. The young have the upper parts more ash above, the lower streaked with dusky reddish 
ash and white, except on the abdomen and under coverts. 
I am unable to discern any differences in specimens from western portions of the United States, 
California, Mexico, or Guatemala. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex 
& age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1617 
a 
July 5,1844 
7.25 
12.00 
4.00 
‘2446 
Sept. 9,1845 
7577 
7260 
J. P. Kirtland.... 
4018 
s 
6.50 
11.50 
3.50 
5318 
s 
July 24,1856 
6.50 
11.50 
4.25 
5319 
o 
7.12 
12.12 
4.00 
3958 
o 
Mar. 20,1853 
89 
6.00 
11.00 
3.75 
V 
black. 
3959 
155 
7.00 
11.25 
3.75 
4236 
7952 
7953 
Sub-Family PTILIOGONIDINAE. , 
Rictus with bristles. Tail long. Wings graduated ; the first primary always half or one-third the second, which is consid¬ 
erably less than the third. Nostrils entirely anterior to the frontal feathers. 
Ptiliogonys. —Head with a broad short crest. Culmen considerably curved from the base. 
Bill broad. Tarsi slightly feathered at the upper extremity ; scutellate. Wings shorter than 
the tail; the first primary very short; the second and third much graduated, acuminated. Tail 
forked, the lateral feather graduated. Heathers narrow, linear. 
Cichlopsis. —Head with a long narrow crest. Culmen moderately curved from the base. 
