Lae BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
the Tits’ eggs: it is almost white, with a few brick- 
dust spots, mostly on the broader end. 
This bird finishes the Tits: they are, as a whole, 
a very lively, amusing race, constantly bringing 
themselves to our notice by their bright and varied 
plumage and by their lively manners, on which 
account, as well as for their material services in the 
destruction of insects, they might well be forgiven a 
few occasional irregularities in the garden and 
orchard, in the purloining of buds: perhaps, after 
all, they only save the gardener a little trouble in 
the way of “ thinning out.” 
Family AMPELIDS. 
Bonemran Waxwine, Bombycilla garrula. I in- 
clude the Bohemian Waxwing, or “ Waxen Chat- 
terer,” as it is, perhaps, more properly called (being 
quite as uncommon in Bohemia as in England), in 
the list of Somersetshire birds, on the authority of 
the following notice in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1867 
(Second Series, p. 633) :— 
“* Bohemian Waawing in Somersetshire.—Mr. Wheeler, 
taxidermist, of 15, St. Augustine’s Parade, has now in his 
hands, for preservation, a very fine specimen of the Bohemian 
Waxwing. It was shot at Batcombe Court, Somerset.” 
This notice was quoted in the ‘ Zoologist’ from 
the ‘Field’ newspaper of January 12, 1867, and has 
