P de cA. Be Meh. 
AMPELIS GARRULUS. 
WaxEN CHATTERER. 
PASSERES. 
Bill conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill ftrait, convex, bending towards the point; near the end of the _ 
upper mandible a fmall notch. Noftrils hid in the briftles. Tongue 
cartilaginous, bifid, | 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Length eight inches. Bill ree irides reddifh : the feathers on the 
crown of the head elongated into a creft: the head and upper parts 
reddifh afh colour. Rump fine cinereous. From the noftrils over _ 
each eye, pafles a ftreak of black. Forehead chefnut. Chin black. 
Breatt pale purplifh chefnut ; | belly paler, inclining to white near the 
vent. Leffler wing coverts, brown; the greater, farthett from the 
‘body, black with white tips, forming a bar: quills black, the third 
and fourth tipped on the outer edges with white, the five following with 
yellow: fecondaries afh-colour, tipped on the outer edge with white; 
feven of the fecondary feathers have the ends of their fhafts continued 
into a flat horny appendage, of the colour of fine red fealing-wax. 
Tail black, tipped with yellow. Legs black. 
AmpPELis GaRrutus, Linn. Sy/t. 1. p. 299. I- 
- Faun. Suec. N® 82. 
Kram. el. . 363. i 
Mp hue ute, eer efelas ple ao 
: Sat Lanius 
