It may be these waxwings have greatly increased, but however uncommon they may still be considered, certainly no one who had ever seen a flock containing more than a thousand of them, resting on the trees of a lawn within sight of New York City, as the writer has done, could be expected to consider the birds "very rare."
"Bird-Neighbors"
Blanchan, Neltje
In addition to ten deer, we shot three wild geese, seven sharp-tailed grouse, eleven sage grouse, nine Bohemian waxwings, and a magpie, for their skeletons.
"The Extermination of the American Bison"
William T. Hornaday
The most mischievous enemies of the cherries, however, here as at the North, are the cedar waxwings, or "cherry-birds."
"Wake-Robin"
John Burroughs