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having afforded opportunities of obtaining specimens, in some 

 one or other of various northern localities. 



Although this bird is called the Bohemian Waxwing, it is 

 not more plentiful in Bohemia than it is in England, It is 

 in the central and southern parts of the European Continent, 

 as it is here, only an accidental visiter in winter. It is a rare 

 bird in France and Provence ; still more rare as far south as 

 Italy, and never crosses the Mediterranean Sea. The geo- 

 graphical range of this bird east and west is, however, very 

 extensive. M. Temminck says it is an inhabitant of Japan, 

 a country which produces another species of this same genus. 

 Our bird is found in various northern parts of Asia, Europe, 

 and North America ; this latter country also producing 

 another species of this genus ; but these three are the only 

 species known ; and the European bird is the largest as well 

 as the finest of the three. 



The country in which this bird produces its young is not 

 decidedly ascertained, and its habits in that season of the 

 year but imperfectly known. Frisch says it is a bird of 

 Tartary, where it breeds among rocks. The Prince of Mu- 

 signano says, " It seems probable that their chief place of 

 abode is in the oriental parts of the old Continent ; and, if 

 we may hazard an opinion, we should not be surprised if the 

 extensive and elevated table-land of Central Asia were found 

 to be their principal rendezvous, whence, like the Tartars in 

 former times, they make their irregular excursions." M. 

 Temminck, in the recently published Supplement to his 

 Manual, says the European Waxwing breeds in the eastern 

 parts of the North of Europe, and lives in the northern parts 

 of Asia. M. Nilsson, an ornithologist of Sweden, and the 

 author of a Fauna of Scandinavia, says, these birds pass the 

 summer in the arctic regions ; they are seen on their passage 

 in Scania in November, and return in the spring. The 

 remarks of Dr. Richardson are as follows : " This elegant 



