390 AMPELID Ai. 
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 obtaiming 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 isin England. It 
is in the central and southern parts of the European Conti- 
nent, as it is here, only an accidental visitor m 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 eld 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 
