To relieve the pressure of having to run down to the Cedar River
mouth every few days, take a look at the "wax" (nothing more than a
modified feather rachis) tip of a Cedar Waxwing secondary feather at
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/waxwingtip.jpg. Gary Shugart
photographed this with our Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera.

Dennis
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Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
1500 N. Warner, #1088
Tacoma, WA 98416-1088
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html