WAXWING 



BOHEMIAN WAXWING BOHEMIAN CHATTERER EUROPEAN 

 CHATTERER WAXEN CHATTERER. 



PLATE LI. FIGURE I. 



Ampelis garrulus, ' . . . . LINNAEUS. 

 Bombycilla garrula, NAUMANN. 



THE Waxwing, only an occasional visitor to the British 

 Isles, breeds within the limits of the Arctic circle in 

 both hemispheres in holes among rocks, or in deep forests. 

 Before the researches of Mr. Wolley in 1856, the nest 

 and eggs of the Waxwing were utterly unknown, and it was 

 not until his fourth season of exploration that his efforts to 

 discover a nest in Lapland were crowned with success. Since 

 then eggs have been found by Mr. Dresser in an island in 

 the Baltic, but it is an erratic bird, building in large numbers 

 in a given locality in one season, and then neglecting it for 

 some years. Mr. Wolley's own description of the nest is as 

 follows : " The Waxwing, as observed in Lapland, makes a 

 good-sized and substantial nest, but without much indication 

 of advanced art. It is of some depth, and regularly shaped, 

 though built of rather intractable materials. As in those of 

 many other birds in the Arctic forests, the main substance is 

 of the kind of lichen commonly called tree-hair, which hangs 

 so abundantly from the branches of almost every tree. This 



