390 AMPELID^E. 



is much more frequent, and the winters of 1787-88 and 9, 

 1790 and 91, 1803, 1810, 1820, 22, 28, 1830, 31, 34 and 

 35, are particularly recorded as having afforded oppor- 

 tunities of obtaining specimens, in some one or other of 

 various northern localities. 



Although this bird is called the Bohemian Waxwing, it 

 is not more plentiful in Bohemia than it is in England. It 

 is in the central and southern parts of the European Conti- 

 nent, as it is here, only an accidental visitor in winter. It 

 is a rare bird in France and Provence ; still more rare 

 as far south as Italy, and never crosses the Mediterranean 

 Sea. The geographical range of this bird east and west is, 

 however, very extensive. M. Temminck says it is an 

 inhabitant of Japan, a country which produces another 

 species of this same genus. Our bird is found in various 

 northern parts of Asia, Europe, and North America ; this 

 latter country also producing another species of this genus ; 

 but these three are the only species known ; and the 

 European bird is the largest as well as the finest of the 

 three. 



The country in which this bird produces its young is not 

 decidedly ascertained, and its habits in that season of the 

 year are but imperfectly known. Frisch says it is a bird of 

 Tartary, where it breeds among rocks. The Prince of 

 Musignano says, " It seems probable that their chief place 

 of abode is in the oriental parts of the old Continent ; and, 

 if we may hazard an opinion, we should not be surprised if 

 the extensive and elevated table-land of Central Asia were 

 found to be their principal rendezvous, whence, like the 

 Tartars in former times, they make their irregular excur- 

 sions." M. Temminck, in the recently published Supple- 

 ment to his Manual, says the European Waxwing breeds in 

 the eastern parts of the North of Europe, and lives in the 



