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it usually obtains on the ground. Its call-note is harsh, 

 resembling the syllables tschagra, tschagra, chugra, chrug, and 

 its song or whistle is an oft-repeated sweet prolonged note, 

 very unlike the note of a Lanius. Its nest is placed on a bush 

 or low tree, is bulky, constructed of twigs and roots, lined with 

 wool, hair, or feathers, and the eggs, 4 to 6 in number, are 

 deposited in April or May, and are white spotted and splashed 

 with pale purplish red shell- and red surface- markings, which are 

 chiefly collected at the larger end ; in size they average about 

 0-98 by 0-75. 



AMPELIS, Linn., 1766. 



372. WAXWING. 

 AMPELIS GARRULUS. 



Ampel/s garruhis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 297 (1766) ; Nauiu. ii. 

 p. 143, pi. 59 ; (Gould), B. of E. ii. pi. 160 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. 

 ii. pi. 21 ; Newton, i. p. 523 ; Dresser, iii. p. 429, pi. 155 ; 

 Newton, Ibis, 1861, p. 92, pi. iv. (eggs) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. x. p. 212 ; Saunders, p. 155 ; Lilford, ii. p. 91, pi. 42 ; 

 Rid g way, p. 464. 



Jaseur de Boh&me, French ; Beccofrusone, Ital. ; Pestvogel, 

 Dutch ; Siedenschwanz, Germ. ; Sidensvands, Dan. and Norweg. ; 

 Sidensvans, Swed. ; Tilhi, Korva-ra&tas, Finn. ; Pallje-rastis, 

 Lapp. ; Sviristiel, Russ. ; Ki-ren-jaku, Jap. 



$ ad. (Finland). Upper parts greyish brown, greyer on the rump ; 

 under parts greyish drab ; crown with, a long crest ; forehead, sides of 

 crest, and under tail-coverts chestnut-red ; lores, a streak through the eye, 

 and throat deep black ; quills blackish, yellow near the end of the outer 

 web, and edged with white at the tip ; secondaries deep grey, white at the 

 end, the shaft with a red, wax-like tip ; tail grey at base, then black 

 broadly tipped with bright yellow ; bill blackish horn, paler at the base ; 

 legs black ; iris rich reddish brown. Culmen 0'65, wing 4'55, tail 2 '8, 

 tarsus 0'8 inch. Sexes alike. The young bird has the upper parts paler 

 brown slightly streaked, the throat and under parts greyish buff streaked 

 with yellowish buff, the white on the secondaries absent. 



Hob. During the summer the arctic portions of the Old and 

 New Worlds, migrating south in winter, its migrations being 

 very irregular. 



In its habits it is very tame and confiding, though less so in 

 the summer than in the winter. When perching it sits very 

 erect, its crest being clearly visible, and when disturbed it at 



