. Birds of Michigan . ian Waxwing. Very rare; winter visitor; occasional in spring. Dr. G. W. Topping, DeWitt, Michigan, took from one to three in April of each of the years 1879-80-81 from flocks going north; in flocks in Kent County nearly every spring, often as many as one hundred (Dudley E. Waters); does not Mr. Waters refer to the next species? 14 106 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OP MICHIGAN. Mr. Levi Broas lias several in Ms collection, which he took in Ionia County;seen in early spring at Bay City in 1884 (N. A. Eddy, in O. and O., Vol. IX,1884, p. 41); Dr. Atkins took this bird at Locke severa
. Birds of Michigan . ian Waxwing. Very rare; winter visitor; occasional in spring. Dr. G. W. Topping, DeWitt, Michigan, took from one to three in April of each of the years 1879-80-81 from flocks going north; in flocks in Kent County nearly every spring, often as many as one hundred (Dudley E. Waters); does not Mr. Waters refer to the next species? 14 106 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OP MICHIGAN. Mr. Levi Broas lias several in Ms collection, which he took in Ionia County;seen in early spring at Bay City in 1884 (N. A. Eddy, in O. and O., Vol. IX,1884, p. 41); Dr. Atkins took this bird at Locke several times in March and oncein April; E. L. Moseley reports two from Michigan; four seen in Kent County,April 4, 1889 (S. E. White); often exceedingly abundant in Northern Michigan(H. Nehrling); several flocks seen at Charlevoix in the fall several years since (M. ); Upper Peninsula (A. H. Boies); Keweenaw Point (Kneeland); TraverseCity (M. L. Leach). Has been taken in southern Indiana several times (A. ).. Cedar Bird, natural size. 261-619-(167). Ampelis cedrorom (Vieill). * Cedar Bird; Cedar Wax-wing;Cherry common; throughout the State; April to August; not rare in winter;embraced in Cabots Birds of Lake Superior; • common at Iron Mountain (E. ); Keweenaw Point (Kneeland); migraes frequently for short distances; inflocks; breeds; nests in bushes, tree3 of the orchard or woodland, etci, in July andAugust; eggs four to six, light drab or clay white, specked with black and brown; eatscherries, apple blossoms, berries and insects, eats three thousand canker worms daily(Forbes report Michigan State Horticultural Society, 1881, p. 204); I have seen themfeeding extensively on canker worms (Prof. C. A. Davis); eat elm beetles and manyother insects (Dr. A. K. Fisher). From a preliminary report by F. E. L. Beal for theUnited States Department of Agriculture, manuscript kindly loaned to me, I find that125 stomachs of these birds from 14 states were exam
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