Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Cherry-Bird

(See Fig. 50.) Ad.-Forehead, chin, and a line through the eye velvety black; a conspicuous crest; upper parts rich grayish brown; upper WAXWINGS. tail-coverts, wings, and tail gray; secondaries, and sometimes tail, with small, red, seed-shaped, sealing-wax-like tips; tail with a yellow band at its end; breast like the back, changing gradually into yellowish on the belly; under tail-coverts white. L., 7.19; W., 3.70; T., 2·37; B. from N., 26.

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