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BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 

 ( Bombycilla Boliemica.) 



Bo. occipite cristato, remigtbus sccundariis apice membranaceo 



colorato. 

 Chatterer with a crested occiput, and the tips of the secondary 



quills with a coloured membranaceous appendage. 

 Ampelis Garrulus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 297. l.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1.838. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 363. 1. 

 Garrulus bohemicus. Ray. Syn. p. 85. A. 

 Bombycilla bohemica. Briss. Orn. l.p. 333. 63. 

 Lanius garrulus. Lin. Faun. Suec. 82. 

 Le Jaseur de Boheme. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 42Q. pi. 26. 



Buff. PL Enl 261. 

 Bohemian Chatterer. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 112. pi. 48.- Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 3. 91. 1. Letoin. Brit. Birds. 2. 65. Don. Brit. 



Birds. 1. ll.Pult. Cat. Dors. 11. 



THIS is the only species of Waxwing that is 

 found in Europe : its length is about eight inches: 

 its beak is black : irides purplish : the head and 

 upper parts of the body vinaceous brown, dashed 

 with ash-Colour, lightest on the rump ; the feathers 

 on the crown of the head are long, and form a 

 pointed crest, reclining backwards, of a chesnut 

 colour; over the eye is a black streak, passing 

 from the beak to the hind head : chin and throat 

 black : breast and belly pale purplish ash-coloured 

 brown, lightest towards the vent: the greater 

 coverts of the primaries black, tipped with white ; 

 greater quills black ; the three first tipped with 

 white, the others with yellow on their outer mar- 



