THE WAXWING. 85 



almost entirely on insects, with occasionally a 

 few berries. 



The discovery of the nest of the Waxwing is 

 one of the romances of ornithology, and is con- 

 nected with the name of John Wolley, one of 

 that earnest school of British naturalists, whose 

 work in the fifties did so much to raise the standard 

 of ornithology in Europe, and to prepare the way 

 for the more complete studies which have been 

 undertajcen during the last forty years. Those 

 ornithologists were mostly Cambridge men, and, 

 happily, the majority of that pioneering band 

 are still with us, though Wolley, Hewitson, John 

 Hancock, Stevenson, and John Henry Gurney 

 have passed away; but, we can still muster 

 among the ranks of working ornithologists, many 

 of the founders of the " Ibis " ; Lord Lilford, 

 P. L. Sclater, Alfred Newton and his brother. 

 Sir Edward Newton, Osbert Salvin, F. D. God- 

 man, and Canon Tristram, all of whom are still 

 actively working at ornithology. It was in the 

 "Ibis," that wonderful journal of ornithology, fast 

 approaching its fortieth volume, that the account of 

 the quest of John Wolley after the Waxwing's nest 

 was published. He spent five consecutive summers, 



