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Family AMPELIDA. 
Three or four species of this very singular and beautiful family 
are all that are known. ‘They chiefly inhabit the temperate and 
northern regions of both the Old and New Worlds, their summer 
residences often bordering the arctic circle, whence some of them 
migrate south at the cold season, but only for a short period. 
Genus AMPELIS. 
WO. AMPRIIS GARRULUS. (9%, .c.bvepubirar) eileen Ol IL, eon 
WaAXEN CHATTERER. 
A native of Norway, Finland, and Russia. Is only an accidental 
visitor to England; and when it does favour us with its presence, 
it is mostly in the winter, especially if that season happens to be 
severe. A distinct species is found in Japan; and the A. cedrorum, 
as we all know, frequents America. 
Family SITTIDZA. 
Taking our Common Nuthatch as a typical example, and omitting 
the members of the allied subgenera Callisitta, Dendrophila, and 
Hypherpes, there exist about a dozen species of this family, some, if 
not all, possessing the peculiarity of being able to run up and run 
down the boles of trees with equal facility. They frequent the 
temperate portions of Europe, Asia, and America. 
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NvutrHatrcH. 
This species is not, as has been supposed, entirely confined to 
Britain ; for it is also found in some of the Danish islands and else- 
where. With us it is stationary and common all over England, 
but is somewhat rare in Cornwall, very scarce in Scotland, and never 
found in Ireland. 
Family PARID A. 
More than a hundred species of Tits have been already named ; 
and there are doubtless many more yet to be described. The coun- 
tries frequented by these tree-loving birds are Europe, Asia, Japan, 
the Philippines, Java, and Sumatra. Africa, also, from north to 
south, contains its fair quota; nor are they absent from America, in 
which country they are principally found in its northern re- 
gions. Structurally they present much variety ; and in consequence 
the entire group has been divided into many genera. In the British 
