3H 



CHATTERER. Class II. 



XVII. 

 CHAT- 

 TERER. 



BILL ftrait, a little convex above, and bending 

 towards the point. Near the end of the lower 

 mandible a fmall notch on each fide. 



NOSTRILS hid in briftles. 



Middle TOE conneded at the bafe to the out- 

 moft. 



3 12. Waxen. Garrulus Bohemicus. Gefaer Phil. Tr an/. No. 175. 



a-v. 703. 

 Mdr. a'v. I. 395. 

 Bohemian Chatterer. JVil. 



orn. 133. 

 Bell's TrwveU. I. 198. 

 Silk Tail. Rati Jyn. av. 85. 

 Ray''s Letters, 198. 200. 

 Le JafeurdeBoheme, Bomby- 



cilla Bohemica. BriJJon c-~o. 



II. 333. Scopoli. No. 20. 



Ampelis garrulus. Lin. fyji, 



297. 

 Siden-Suantz, Snotuppa. 



Faun. Suec./p. 82. 

 Sieden vel Sieben Suands. 



Brunnich 25. 

 Zuferl, Geidenfchvveiffl. Kram. 



363. 

 Seiden-fchwantz. Frifch, I. 



^ 2. 

 Br, Zool. 77. plate C. i. 



THESE birds appear but by accident in South 

 Britain : about Edinkirgh in Fehniary\ they 

 come annually and feed on the berries of the moun- 

 tain afh : they alfo appear as far fouth as Nor- 

 thumkrland, and like the fieldfare make the berries 

 of the white thorn their food. Their native coun- 

 try is Bohemia,. ixom whence they wander over Eu- 

 rope, and were once fuperditiouily confidered as 

 prefages of a peftilence. Tiiey are gregarious ; 



feed 



