VIREONID.E. - AMPELID^l. 39 



Woodchat Shrike, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 160. 



Pomerdnus = of Pomerania. 



An accidental visitor to England on migration, breeding 

 in Central and Southern Europe, and wintering in North 

 Africa, where many also remain to breed. Eastwards its 

 range extends as far as Persia. 



[Family VIREONID^E. 

 Genus VIREO, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. i. p. 83 (1807). 



Vireo = a kind of small bird known to Pliny ; from vlreo = I am green. 



Vireo olivaceus. BED-EYED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa olivacea (partim) , Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 327 



(1766). 



Vireosylvia olivacea, Newton, i. p. 232, note ; Harting, p. 99. 



Olivaceus = olive-coloured, from ollva = an olive, referring to the prevailing 





hue of the plumage. 



Two specimens of this North- American ^species are said to 

 have been caught near Derby, May 1859 (Mosley, Nat. Hist. x. 

 Tutbury,' p. 385, pi. 6 ; Zool. 1864, p. 8965). Dr. C. R. Bree 

 thinks, from the plate, that these were examples of Vireo alti- 

 loquus, Gambel (Field, 1870, May 14). It has not occurred 

 elsewhere in Europe.] 



Family AMPELID.E. 

 Genus AMPELIS, Linnaus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 297 (1766). 



Ampelis = dfjiireX'ts, the bird which frequents the vine, a/iTreXos (Aristophanes, 

 Aves, 304). 



Ampelis garrulus. WAXWING. 



Ampelis Garrulus, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 297 (1766). 

 Bombycilla garrula, Naum. ii. p. 143 ; Macg. iii. p. 533 ; Yarr. 

 ed. 2, i. p. 388 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 413. 



