. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . r, but duller, and under parts strongly, upper parts lightly, : ()., wing tail (50. Remarks. — The Cedar waxwing differs from the Bohemian in beingsmaller, and in lacking the dark brown of f oi*ehead, cheeks, and under tailcoverts, and the yellow and white wing markings. Distribution. — Breeds mainly in Transition and Upper Sonoran zones ofNorth America, from Saskatchewan south to Virginia, western NorthCarolina, and the
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . r, but duller, and under parts strongly, upper parts lightly, : ()., wing tail (50. Remarks. — The Cedar waxwing differs from the Bohemian in beingsmaller, and in lacking the dark brown of f oi*ehead, cheeks, and under tailcoverts, and the yellow and white wing markings. Distribution. — Breeds mainly in Transition and Upper Sonoran zones ofNorth America, from Saskatchewan south to Virginia, western NorthCarolina, and the mountains of New Mexico and Arizona ; winters fromthe northern border of the United States to the West Indies and Costa Rica. Nest. — In bushes or low trees, a deep, bulky structure, made of twigs,weed stems, grasses, and vegetable fibers, lined with leaves and finerootlets. JEggs . usually 4, bluish or purplish gray, spotted with brown orblack. Food. — Insects, including elm-leaf beetles and bark or scale lice, withseeds or berries of trees, such as pepper, juniper, mulberry, and mistletoe. WAXWINGS AND PHAINOPEPLAS 389. Fig. 480 ir Waxwiiijj. Like the Bohemiiui waxwing the cedar-birds are wanderers, travel-ing over the country in flocks except during their hite breeding sea-son. Sometimes they appear in small bands of less than a score, atothers in such large companies that when they alight in a pepper-tree and fall to eating the berries their plump, moving forms seenthrough the foliage make the trees seem alive with their numbers. Though they all talk at once, as they usually do, their sibilantnotes are so soft and subdued that a passer-by would .scarcely heedtheir presence. However mu(!h romance there may be in the fjimous stories reciting the politeness and alTection of these gentle binls. they merit all 390 WAXWINGS AND PHAINOPEPLAS the study that can be given them, and if watched through a nestingseason win their own place in the affections of the bird-lover. GE
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