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ELBMBNTS OF OENITHOLOGT. 



the true Nightingale. Of this large family-group of stout- 

 billed Birds there are more than five hundred different species, 

 some or other of which are found all over the globe, except 

 in Australia. 



The Bohemian Waxwing {Ampelis garrulus), an occasional 

 visitor in England, is an example of a small group of nine 

 species of Northern forms. It is one of the most beautiful 



Fig. 112. 



The Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garruhis). 



Birds ever to be found in our country, and its name is derived 

 from curious appendages, like small pieces of sealing-wax, which 

 are attached to certain feathers of its wing. 



The Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is the best-known 

 of our Warblers, and one of the earlier arrivals of the spring (the 

 song of which is considered as hardly inferior in quality to that 

 of the. Nightingale), is the type of a group within which the 



