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THE BOHEMIAN WAXWIW 



Hornby cilia garrula. 

 PLATE XI. 



Ampelis garrulus, Linn. Bombicivora garrula, 7Vmm. .. 

 Garrulus Bohemicus, Ray. Bombycilla Bohemica, 



Bri&s Bomhemian Chatterer, European Chatterer, 



and Bohemian Wax wing, of modern British authors. 



THIS beautiful species has now been many 

 times killed and seen in Britain, though its ap- 

 pearances are very uncertain both in regard to 

 time and numbers. A few have occurred from 

 time to time in the southern and midland coun- 

 ties of England. In Ireland we have the autho 

 rity of Mr Thompson for notices of its appear- 

 ance, and in Scotland it has been occasionally 

 seen and recorded during the last fifty years, and 

 we possess a specimen shot on the Calton Hill, 

 near Edinburgh. In Europe it appears to come 

 and depart in the same straggling and uncertain 

 .manner, while in America it is also a rare bird, 

 and confined to the northern parts. When seen 

 in this country, they are assembled in flocks of 

 various numbers, sometimes consisting only of a 

 few, and at others of considerable numbers. 

 Their food, at these times, is entirely the various 

 kinds of winter berries ; two shot on the Eng- 

 lish Border, which we had an opportunity of 

 examining, were filled with the berries of the 

 bolly, and the same observations have been made 

 by Mr Selby. At other times, insects form a 



