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no signature. There was also a note in the ‘ Taun- 
ton Courier’ for January 15, 1868, of the Waxen 
Chatterer having been shot near Chard: I have, 
however, some doubt about it, as it was described as 
being like a Jay. 
This bird has probably been found in this county 
at other times, although its capture has not been 
recorded. It is an occasional winter visitor to 
England, sometimes in considerable numbers, and 
has been killed in almost every county, including 
the neighbouring counties of Devon and Cornwall. 
During their occasional visits to England these 
birds are said to feed on the berries of the mountain 
ash, hawthorn and ivy: when berries are scarce they 
are said to feed on insects, catching them in the 
same manner as F'lycatchers. 
The following description is taken from Yarrell :-— 
“The beak is almost black, but light brown on the 
edges near the base; the irides dark red; the fore- 
head reddish chestnut; the feathers on the top of 
the head a broccoli-brown and elongated, forming a 
crest; over the base of the upper mandible, on the 
lore round the eye, and passing backwards round the 
occiput on the back part of the crest, an elongated 
circle of black; nape of the neck light broccoli-brown, 
becoming darker on the back, scapulars and small 
wing-coverts; the coverts of the primaries black, 
tipped with white; primaries and secondaries black, 
with an elongated patch of straw-yellow at the end of 
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