VAXWING. 



AMP E LIS GARRULUS, Linn. 



Ampelis Garrulus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 297 (1766) ; Yarr. ed. 4, 



i. p. 523 ; Dresser, iii. p. 429. 

 Bombycilla garrula, Naum. ii. p. 143; Macg. iii. p. 533. 



Jaseur de Boheme, French ; Seidenschwanz , German. 



This handsome bird is an irregular winter visitor to 

 our islands from the extreme north of Europe, where it 

 breeds ; it has been recorded as occurring more or less 

 frequently in every county of England, also in Scotland 

 and Ireland. Eive hundred and eighty-six examples of 

 this species were reported in the ' Zoologist ' as having 

 occurred between November 1849 and March 1850. 



The breeding-habits of this species were quite un- 

 known to ornithologists before 1856, in which year 

 the late Mr. John Wolley discovered nests and eggs in 

 Lapland ; a condensed account of this discovery is to 

 be found in the 4th edition of Yarrell's * British Birds ' 

 (Newton), vol. i. 



