Plate XLIII. Male and Female.
General colour light greyish-brown, passing behind into ash-grey,
before into pale brownish-red, of which colour is the upper part of
the head; a black band on the forehead passing backwards over the eye
to the occiput, and margined above and below by a narrow white band;
feathers in the angle of the lower mandible black; abdomen pale
yellow; lower tail-coverts white; wings and tail dull leaden-blue,
darker toward the end; primaries with a very small pale yellow spot
at the tip, secondaries tipped with an oblong wax-red appendage, as
are the tail-feathers, of which the extremity is bright yellow. Female
similar to the male but somewhat smaller. The oblong appendages to the
wings vary from nine to three. Young with the upper parts of a uniform
dull greenish-brown, lower parts of the same colour, the throat pale
buff, abdomen and lower tail-coverts yellowish-white.
_Male_, 6-3/4, 11.
From Texas northward to the Fur Countries. Westward to the Columbia
River. Extremely abundant in Louisiana during winter.
Bombycilla carolinensis, Briss. v. ii. p. 337.
Cedar Bird, Ampelis americana, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 107.
Bombycilla carolinensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 59.
Cedar Bird or Cherry Bird, Nutt. Man. v. i.
Cedar Bird, Bombycilla carolinensis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p.
227; v. v. p. 494.