Bombycilla garrula, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. iii. pl. 16. European Waxen Chatterer, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 579. Bohemian Chatterer, Bombycilla garrula, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 462. 246. 2. Bombycilla Carolinensis, Briss. Cedar Waxwing.--Cedar Bird. 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. FAMILY XXIII. SITTINÆ. NUTHATCHES. Bill of moderate length or rather long, straight, rather slender, conico-subulate, somewhat compressed, with the tips acute, or cuneate. Head ovate; neck short; body full. Tarsi rather short, or of moderate length, slender, compressed, with seven or eight scutella; toes long, very slender; hind toe extremely long; anterior little spreading; claws long, little arched, slender, much compressed, acute. Plumage soft and full. Wings of moderate length, broad, rounded. Tail short, broad, of twelve feathers. Roof of upper mandible very narrow, slightly concave, with three ridges; tongue very slender, with the tip abrupt and bristly; œsophagus without dilatation; stomach roundish, moderately muscular; intestine short and wide; cœca very small. Trachea simple; with a single pair of large inferior laryngeal muscles. Allied to the Titmice on the one hand, and the Woodpeckers on the other. GENUS I. SITTA, Linn. NUTHATCH.