. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . uch a time I liaveseen a cherry or a caterpillar passed from one to another until it had passedup and down the line before any would take it. Who can describe the marvelous beauty and elegance of this bird ? Whatother is dressed in a robe of such delicate and silky texture ? Those shades ofblending beauty, velvety black, brightening into fawn, melting browns, shiftingsaffrons, quaker drabs, pale blue and slate with trimmings of white and goldenyellow, and the l
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . uch a time I liaveseen a cherry or a caterpillar passed from one to another until it had passedup and down the line before any would take it. Who can describe the marvelous beauty and elegance of this bird ? Whatother is dressed in a robe of such delicate and silky texture ? Those shades ofblending beauty, velvety black, brightening into fawn, melting browns, shiftingsaffrons, quaker drabs, pale blue and slate with trimmings of white and goldenyellow, and the little red appendages uijon the wing not found in any otherfamily of birds—all, combined with its graceful form, give the bird an appearanceof elegance and distinction peculiarly its own. Its mobile, erectile crest expressesevery emotion. When lying loose and low upon the head, it signifies ease andcomfort. Excitement or surprise erect it at once, and in fear it is pressed flat. In 1908, some fruit-growers in \ermont introduced into the assembly abill framed to allow them to shoot Cedar ^^axwings. This liill was pushed with 460. 349 CEDAR WAXWING.^ Life-size. COPTHtGHT 1900, BY * W. MUMrORD, OHICAOO such vigor that it passed the House in spite of all the arguments that could beadvanced regarding the usefulness of the birds. In the Senate, however, thesearguments were dropped, and the senators were shown mounted specimens of thebird. That was enough; its beauty conquered and the bill was defeated. The Cedar Waxwing is found throughout the wooded portions of NorthAmerica, from the fur countries southward, and winters in most of the UnitedStates and southward to Cuba, Mexico and Panama. It is accidental in theBahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica and Great Britain. It breeds from British Colum-bia to northern Ontario and northwestern Quebec and south to southern r)regonand North Carolina. Perhaps in the white days of winter you may see a little flock sitting uprightupon some leafless tree, c
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