60 BIRDS OF MIDDLESEX. 



abound, will account for its being but seldom seen 

 Middlesex. 



In the year 1743, the Countess of Albemarle 

 brought with her from Copenhagen a large cage full 

 of these birds, when she returned from her attend- 

 ance on one of the princesses of Great Britain who 

 was espoused by the Prince of Denmark ; and some 

 of these having made their escape, the Count de 

 Buffon supposes that, from this circumstance, a 

 colony was formed in England. 



Edwards (who calls this species the Least Butcher- 

 bird, bat refers to Albin's description of it under 

 the name of Bearded Titmouse), writing in 1743, 

 observes, that he was favoured with a sight of the 

 birds brought over by the countess, and adds, '' I 

 have seen some others of the same kind, both cocks 

 and hens, shot among the reeds in marshes near 

 London, though they are not well enough known 

 in England to have a name." 



Family Ampelid.e. 



BoHEJiiiAN Waxwing, Bomhijcilla garrula. The 

 earliest notice which I have been able to find of the 

 occurrence of the Waxwing in this county, appears 

 in an old quarto volume, 1794, entitled "Portraits 

 of Bare and Curious Birds, with tlieir descriptions, 

 from the Menagerie at Osterley Park," bj^ W. 

 Haves. A coloured illustration of this bird is 



