\VAXWINGS AND S\\’AI.LO\VS. "I 
     
    
   
   
    
     the murmuring howers. Its nest is a cup—like, 
     
     hangingr structure, woven of shreds of hark and 
     
     suspended from the flexuous extremity of a slender 
     
     limb. The eggs are three to five, white with a 
     
     few dark specks. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Eilztxlnings. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Cedar \Vaxwing is a beautiful, cinnamon- 
     
     eolored bird, with conspicuous crest and peculiar, 
     
     vermilion appendages to its wings. It is not 
     
     common here, hut7 in August, will come in small 
     
     numbers about the cherry trees7 or call, like a 
     
     wandering spirit of gentleness, in the lonely cedar 
     
     swamps. It nests in the cedar bush, or, perhaps, 
     
     in an orchard, and the eggs are not laid till late 
     
     in July. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Swallows. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of this graceful family we have four species. 
     
     The White-bellied Swallow (Iz'z'dofimcezw biailor) 
     
    
   
   
    
     is the earliest to arrive. With the first May stms