"Attention is usually attracted to a flock of these birds 
— the hissing high-pitched “sst-sse” of the birds, as they 
feed on insect pests, or the red berries of the mountain ash, 
and wherever canker worms or the small nuts in the cedar 
cones abound, there, also, will be found the waxwings. 
These notes are the only tones that they appear to give, 
and, it is said that like the squeak of a mouse, it is too thin 
and high for many mortal ears to catch. 
Also in cherry season one does not aied to have seen 
him to know that the waxwing has arrived, for he is as 
fond of cherries as the average city boy and his property 
sense is as little developed. Unlike the boy, he has already 
paid for what he takes, in the daytime, by the 10% of his 
food which he takes in insects. To be sure, when he gets so 
full of fruit that the weight of his body is beyond the power 
of his wings to move, the owner of a cherry tree feels as if 
he were not getting a square deal. He might console himself 
with the thought that if the gentlemanly waxwing did not — 
get his fruit other robbers might, and besides, man is told 
to share his good things with his neighbors. 
- These birds have another kind of habit which the child- 
ren of man might adopt, much to the comfort of their house-_ 
holds. They are as courteous to one another as the members 
of a Japanese family, and seem to have been able to pick 
out the right sort of grandmother and grandfather to 
develop this trait. Many are the stories that are told of 
their politeness to one another. His good manners and 
beauty have convinced observers that the Cedar Waxwing, 
like many human beings, more than averages up, and must 
be forgiven his love of cherries, because, like the lilies, he 
adds so much to the beauty of the world. | 
The Northwestern states are favored not only by Weide 
a section visited by the Cedar Waxwing, but it sometimes 
happens that the rarer, larger Bohemian Waxwing descends 
upon a locality like a cloud of locusts. The amateur will 
need to look carefully before he announces that he has seen 
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