ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 

 FAMILY AM'PELIDJE. WAXWINGS, ETC. 



Feautiful birds; fly in flocks; feed on seeds, insects and fruit. 



SUBFAMILY AMPELIN^. WAXWINGS. 

 GENUS AMPELIS LINN. 



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Bohemian Waxwing, one-half natural size. 



2(K)-618-(16O). Ampelis garrulus Linn. * BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



Very rare; winter visitor; occasional in spring. Dr. G. W. Topping, DeWitt, 



Michigan, took from one to three in April of each of the years 1879-80-31 from flocks 



going north; "in flocks in Kent County nearly every spring, often as many as one 



hundred" (Dudley E. Waters); does not Mr. Waters refer to the next species? 



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