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Title: A first book upon the birds of Oregon & Washington; a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Lord, William Rogers, 1847-1916
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Portland, Ore., W.R. Lord
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Arrives in mid-April. THE CEDAR WAXWING (*Cherry Bird).General Description : A crested bird. General color, grayish-brown,tinged with plum color. Very neat appearanceand quiet manner when perching.Length, 7 inches.Found all over settled parts of the country in smallflocks, except in nesting-season in June. Combined exquisiteness of dress, gentleness ofdisposition, politeness of manners, almost lispingsong and whispered conversation, distinguish theCedar Waxwing from all other birds. The Blue-bird has been previously described as gentle-manly or ladylike, and so it is, in looks andgeneral manner. But the Waxwing outranks itin these respects and in the others named. With regard to his dress, some might call thebird a dandy, so exquisitely neat and perfectis he. But a second thought will cause us to re-gard his attire rather as a work of fine art; theperfect crest, the vinaceous tint in the predom-inating soft, gray-brown plumage, the velvetyblack line across the eye and around the fore-
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Boy and Cedar Waxwing. (See page 256.) Birds of Oregon and Washington 113 head, the dainty red waxlike spots upon thewings, as if each one had been placed there fromwithout by the divine Master Artist Himself, thefinished yellow edge upon the tail, all togethergive an impression of perfect quiet beauty that isunique in our experience of birds. As to manners, Nuttall describes their polite-ness to each other as they go about in flocks.He says he has often seen them passing a wormalong the line from one to another and backagain before it was finally eaten. Their song is a lisping Twee-twee-ze. Theircommunications while in social tete-a-tete upona tree are, as suggested, in a whisper evidentlyintended only for each others ears. Owing to their food habits they are, likeRobins, rovers when not nesting. They mustfind cedarberries, canker-worms, wild or culti-vated fruit; and they fare forth for these with arange even wider than the Swallows, as nightfalldoes not call them back to any fixed

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