AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 
140. CEDAR WAXWING. 
Ampelis cedrorum (Vieill.). 
Resident; abundant. This bird may be identified by the pe- 
culiar red and horny appendages usually attached to the tips of 
the inner wing quills, which resemble red sealing wax (from 
which it derives the name of Waxwing). The tail has a band 
of chrome yellow across the tip. These birds are fond of 
cherries and a few other garden fruits, but notwithstanding all 
that, they are much more beneficial than injurious, and for this 
reason should be protected. In different sections visited I ob- 
served small flocks feeding upon the berries of red cedar ( Fz- 
niperus virginiana), deerberry or hackleberry ( Vaccenium sta- 
mineum), and sour gum (Vyssa multiflora). The stomach of 
a specimen killed in West Virginia contained wild cherries. In 
eastern Pennsylvania I found the remains of the following in- 
sects in their stomachs: house fly (Wausca domestica), stable fly 
( Stomoxys calcitrans), white-lined horsefly ( 7abanus lineola), 
mosquito ( Culex teniorhynchus), rose slug (Selandria rose), 
and red-legged grasshopper ( Caloptenus femur-rubrum). 
141. NORTHERN SHRIKE. 
Lanius borealis Vieill. 
Winter visitant. 
142. REDE RY ED? ViREO: 
Vireo olivaceus (Linn.). 
Summer resident; common throughout the State, but seems 
to prefer orchards and open woodlands, although I found it in 
the heavy forests that line Greenbrier and Cheat Rivers. 
143. WARBLING VIREO. 
Vireo gilvus (Vieill.). 
Summer resident; common. The notes of this species may 
be heard during the middle of the day, when most other birds 
are silent. Itis ever on the alert in quest of insects. It fre- 
quents small groves and orchards close to villages and towns. 
Its food consists chiefly of dipterous and lepidopterous insects. 
