ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 

 Family AMPELID.E. Waxwings, etc. 



Ee.iutiful birds; fly in flocks; feed on seeds, insects and fruit. 



Subfamily AMPELIN/E. Wax wings. 

 Genus AMPELIS Linn. 



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Bohemian Waxwing, one-half natural size. 



260-01 S-( 100). Anipelis garrulus -Liww. * Bohemian Waxwing. 



Very rare; winter visitor; occasional in spring. Dr. G. W. Topping, DeWitt, 

 Michigan, took from one to three in April of each of the years 1879-80-81 from flocks 

 going north; "in flocks in Kent County nearly every spring, often as many as one 

 hundred" (Dudley E. Waters); does not Mr. Waters refer to the next species? 



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