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ORD. HI. GENUS IV. CHATTERER. 
Bixt, ftraight, a I'ttle convex above, and bending towards the point: a finall 
notch in the upper mandible on each fide near the end. | 
Nostrits, hidden in briftles. 
Mrppte To, connected at the bafe to the outermoft. 
SPECIES Ll WAXEN CHATTERER. 
Pl. 66. 
Ampelis Garrulus. Lin. Syf. I. p. 291. 
Le Jafeur de Bohéme. Brif. Orn, Il. p. 233. 
This bird is about the fize of a fky-lark: its length eight inches. The bill 
dark, and covered at the bafe with black briftles: eyes reddifh: the fore part of 
the head red; the back part, the feathers of which are lengthened into a creft, 
reddifh ath colour: from the noftrils a ftreak of black paffes over each eye al- 
moft to the hind part of the head: underneath the eye, and inclining backwards, 
a little red, bordered with white next the eye: throat black, with a fmall briftly 
tuft in the middle, and edged with white towards the bill: neck and breatt reddith 
afh coloured: middle of the back, fhoulders, and wing coverts dufky: the latter 
tipt with white: quills black ; the firft three tipt with white, the next fix edged 
with yellow on the outer margin, and with white on the inner; “fix or eight of 
the fecondaries have the end of the fhafts continued into a flat horny appendage, 
of the colour of fine red fealing-wax: tail black, tipt with white, and edged with 
fine yellow: the rump and belly of a fine afh-colour: vent bright bay: legs 
black. 
This bird is frequently fhot in England, but is only an occafional vifitor of 
the fouthern parts, though it is feen annually about Edinburgh in February. It 
is faid to breed in Bohemia, whence it is called by fome the Bohemian chatterer. 

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