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of inner web, rest of tail blackish, slightly tipped with 

 white ; lower parts yellowish- white. Length 7-25. 

 Female : duller, back being largely rufous-brown, but 

 scapulars are white. 



Mr. O. V. Aplin has shown (Zool. 1892, p. 345 52) 

 that not more than from 35 to 40 examples have been 

 taken in England (from Northumberland to the Scilly 

 Isles), and a few more seen, while it appears to have 

 nested twice in the Isle of Wight, and is said to have done 

 so in other localities ; it is unknown in Scotland and 

 Ireland. 



Family Ampelidae. 



GENUS XXX. AMPELIS, Linnaeus (1766) 

 Bill short, strong, nearly straight, upper mandible 

 decurved at tip and notched ; gape wide, without bristles. 

 Wings long ; tail short, nearly even. Feathers of crown 

 forming an erectile crest. 



77. Ampelis garrulus, Linn. WAXWING. 



Hab. Northern Palaearctic and Nearctic regions, from 

 North Scandinavia to Alaska. Migrating southward in 

 winter. 



Male : general plumage light brown, with a greyish 

 tinge, becoming light grey on lower back and belly ; sides 

 of crest and the forehead chestnut-brown ; below latter a 

 black frontal band, running backward to lores and 

 circumocular regions ; throat also black ; greater wing- 

 coverts black, tipped with white ; quills black ; primaries 

 barred alternately with white and yellow ; secondaries 

 spotted with white at end and with peculiar tips like red 

 sealing-wax to shafts ; tail blackish, with a broad yellow 

 terminal band, and, in many old birds, with the red wax- 



