106 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
the true Nightingale. Of this large family-group of stout- 
billed Birds there are more than five hundred different species, 
some or other of which are found all over the globe, except 
in Australia. 
The Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garrulus), an oecasional 
visitor in England, is an example of a small group of nine 
species of Northern forms. It is one of the most beautiful 
Fig. 112. 

The Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garrulus). 
Birds ever to be found in our country, and its name is derived 
from curious appendages, like small pieces of sealing-wax, which 
are attached to certain feathers of its wing. 
The Blackeap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is the best-known 
of our Warblers, and one of the earlier arrivals of the spring (the 
song of which is considered as hardly inferior in quality to that 
of the Nightingale), is the type of a group within which the 
