CHATTERER. 175 



Lord Boring-don A — Dr. Pulteney records one having been killed at 

 Shaftesbury in 1788; but certainly, they appear to be most plentiful 

 northward. The general food is berries of all kinds, and, like many 

 other birds, they are fond of grapes, and when to be met with in 

 plenty, are esteemed good for the table. 



2.— CAROLINA CHATTERER. 



Ampelis garrulus, Lid. Orn. i. 364. j3. Lin. i. 297. /3. Gm. Lin. 838. 1. j3. 



Ampelis Americana, Cedar Bird, Amer. Orn. i. pi. 7. f. 1. 



Bomby cilia Carolinensis, Bris. ii. 337. Id. 8vo. 1. 251. Klein, 70. 34. T. F. Miller, 



III. t. 8: 

 Bombycilla Cedrorum, Vieill. Am. i. p. S8. pi. 57. 



Avis Americana cristata, Xomotl, Seba, ii. 66. t. 65. 5. Klein, Av. 98. 11. 

 Coquantototl, Raii, 174. 

 Crown, or Cedar Bird, Bartr. Tr. 288. 

 Prib Chatterer, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 207. 

 Carolina Waxwing, Shaw's Zool. x. 423. 

 Chatterer of Carolina, Gen. Syn. iii. 93. 1. A. Id. Sup. ii. 189. Gates. Car.'u 46. 



Faun. Amer. p. 13. Ellis, Voy. ii. 13. Cook's last Voy.W. 518. 



THIS is less than the European Species, but in general plumage 

 not unlike. The streak, however, from the nostrils is less defined, 

 black, bordered above and beneath with white, and the chin merely 

 dusky; belly and vent pale yellow, instead of reddish chestnut; the 

 under tail coverts white ; there is neither any white at the ends of the 

 greater coverts, nor the second quills ; but these last are furnished 

 with red appendages as in the other ; the ends of the tail feathers 

 yellowish for one quarter of an inch ; in some also the tail ends in a 

 horny blade, like the wings, one of which has come under my inspec- 

 tion, having three or four of the feathers tipped in that manner. 



The female has only five appendages at the end of the second 

 quills, and not always so many : young cocks, too, are at first 

 without any, and have been mistaken for females; though they have 

 most frequently two or three, but chiefly on one wing. 



* Orn. Diet. 



