_Ampelis Carolinensis._
_Bombycilla Carolinensis_, +Briss.+—Aud. pl. 43.
_Ampelis Americana_, +Wils.+
_Bombycilla cedrorum_, +Vieill.+
For the history of this elegant bird, which has never fallen under my
notice in Jamaica, I refer to the American ornithologists. My reason
for noticing it here, is the following note of Mr. Hill’s.
“In severe winters on the continent, we have been visited by that
American species of the Waxwing usually called the Cedar-bird. I have
been informed that in the Christmas of 1836, several in a flock were
seen about the cashaw-trees of Spanish town. Nothing is known of their
habits with us, except that they were shy, and scudded about, a dozen
or twenty together, and very prominently displayed the scarlet,
wax-like ornaments resulting from the flattening of the shafts of the
secondary feathers of the wings.”