110 PASSERES. 



The Red-cheeked Starling is a very well marked species, but it is 

 appareiitly nearest allied to Sturnia daurica, a Starling which breeds 

 in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia, and passes through China on 

 migration to winter in the Burma peninsula and Java. 



81. AMPELIS GARRULUS. 

 (BOHEMIAN WAXWING.) 



Ampelis garndus, Linneiis, Syst. Nat. i. p. 297 (1766). 



In the Bohemian Waxwing the tip of the tail is yellow. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, iii. pi. 155. 



The Bohemian Waxwing is a common winter visitor to Yezzo, and 

 occasionally wanders into Southern Japan. There are two examples 

 in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 158), and four in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. The 

 examples procured by the Siebold Expedition were probably obtained 

 at Nagasaki (Temminck and Schlegel, Eauna Japonica, Aves, p. 84) , 



The Bohemian Waxwing breeds in the Arctic Regions of both 

 continents, and sometimes visits the British Islands in great numbers. 



82. AMPELIS JAPONICUS. 



(JAPANESE WAXWING.) 



Bombycioora japonica, Siebold, Hist. Nat. Jap. St. no. 2 (1824). 



In the Japanese Waxwing the tip of the tail is red. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 44, 

 as Bomby cilia phcenicoptera. 



The Japanese Waxwing is a winter visitor to Japan, but is less 

 abundant than the European species. It is very rare in Yezzo 

 (Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 200), but there are seven examples in the 

 Pryer collection from Yokohama. Mr. Ringer has presented examples 

 to the Norwich Museum obtained at Nagasaki (Blakiston, Am. List 

 Birds of Japan, p. 50) ; and it has also been recorded from the 

 central group of the Loo-Choo Islands (Stejneger, Proc. United 

 States Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 648). 



The Japanese Waxwing breeds in South-eastern Siberia, and 

 winters in Japan, China, and Formosa. 



In winter it often feeds on the berries of the mistletoe (Jouy, Proc. 

 United States Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 291) . 



