cedar-bird

The cedar-bird is sometimes called the cherry bird, and is accused of being a great cherry-stealer, but an examination of stomachs showed that only nine birds out of one hundred and fifty-two had eaten any cherries and that cherries formed only five per cent. of the food of these few.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

It bears a strong general resemblance to the cedar-bird, though decidedly larger, and differently marked in some points.

Rural Hours 1887

The wild lettuce yields down for the hummingbird's nest, and the flowers of whiteweed are used by the kingbird and cedar-bird.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

I noted three nests of the cedar-bird in August in a single orchard, all productive, but all with one or more unfruitful eggs in them.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

Where plenty of the berries of the red cedar can be had, the cedar-bird will pass the winter in New York.

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

The cedar-bird probably finds little other food in the valley of the

The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

It is rarely that the nest of the goldfinch or the cedar-bird is harried.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

I heard of a cedar-bird caught and destroyed in the same way, and of two young bluebirds, around whose legs a horse-hair had become so tightly wound that the legs withered up and dropped off.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

The cedar-bird is the most silent of our birds having but a single fine note, so far as I have observed, but its manners are very expressive at times.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

The midsummer nests, like that of the goldfinch and the waxwing, or cedar-bird, are the safest of all.

The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879