Wax-wixnc. OMNIVORI. BOMBYCIVORA. SY 
Basal part of quills plum-purple. The tips dusky. 
Rump purple. Tail consisting of twelve feathers, the 
outermost (elongated in the male bird) pale ultra-ma- 
rine-blue, tipped with black; the rest blackish-green. 
Legs wood-brown. 
Genus VII. WAX-WING. BOMBYCIVORA, Temm. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bil strong, short, and strait ; the upper mandible slightly 
bent at the tip, and emarginated. Nostrils basal, ovoid, and 
open, concealed by closely set feathers directed forwards. 
Wings long; the first and second quill feathers being the 
longest. Secondary quills having their tips ornamented with 
a wax-like appendage. Feet with three toes before, and one 
behind; the outer toe jomed at its base to the middle one. 
Tarsus shorter than the middle toe. 
This genus has been established by Mons. Temmincx, 
who has very judiciously removed it from the genus Ampelis 
(Chatterer), where it was left by Linnzus and Latuam ; 
the constituent members of which possess distinct and pecu- 
liar characters, and belong to a different order. The genus 
now before us contains at present but two species, viz. the B. 
Garrula (Bohemian Wax-Wing), and B. Carolina (Carolina 
Wax-Wing), a native of North America. 
Bohemian Wax-wing.—Bombycivora garrula, Tem. 
PLATE 34*. 
Bombycivora garrula, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 124. 
Bombycilla Bohemica, Briss. Ornith. v. 2. p. 333. 
Ampelis garrulus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 297. 1.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 838. sp. 1.— 
Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 363. 
Le Jaseur, Buff. Ois. v. 3. 429. t. 26.—Id. Pl. Enl. 261. 
Grand Jaseur, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 1. p. 124. 
Garrulus Bohemicus, Raii, Syn. p. 85. A. 
Rothlich grauerseidenschwantz, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 204. 
Bohemian Chatterer, Br. Zool. 1. No. 112. t. 48.—Lath. Syn. 3. p. 91. 1.— 
Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Lewin’s Br. Birds. 2. t. 65.—Bewick’s Br. Birds.— 
—Don, Br. Birds, 1. t. 11._— Put, Cat. Dorset. p- 11. 
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