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AMFELID^. 



WAXWING. 



Ampelis garrulus. 



A RARE visitant, chiefly in severe winters. On January 12thj 

 1850, a beautiful male was shot in West Grinstead Parkj 

 and brought to Sir W. W. Burrell ; another was shot in a 

 brickfield near Horsham, apparently a female or immature 

 bird. I have one in my own collection which was shot near 

 Hastings. 



Mr. Dennis, writing to me on July 4th, 1850, mentions 

 that one was seen at Denton during last January, feeding on 

 the berries of a Pyracanthus roughly trained against a house, 

 and that he was informed that one had been shot near New- 

 haven, while feeding on a similar shrub in a cottage garden ; 

 that he saw one at Lewes, which was killed at Tarring 

 Neville, and two more obtained near Hailsham. I have also 

 seen two which were shot in Ashburnham Park, and one at 

 Albourne ; all three in 1 844. 



Mr. Knox mentions two which were shot in a garden at 

 Newtimber, feeding on hawthorn berries, that one was killed 

 atBeeding, and another near Shoreham. In the 'Zoologist' 

 (p. 2768) a specimen, shot at Piddinghoe, is recorded by 

 Mr. Ellman. There appears to have been a considerable 

 incursion of these birds throughout England in that year, 

 1850 {op. cit. p. 6605). 



Both nest and eggs were wholly unknown, until, in June 

 1856, they were discovered by one Ludwig Matthias Knob- 

 lock, Mr. WoUey's most trusted follower, at Sadio, on the 

 Kittila Eiver, in Kemi Lapmark (see Yarrell's 'British 

 Birds,' vol. i. p. 539). 



