49!2 CAROLINA WAXWING. 



• ginsj the secondaries tipped on the outer web 

 with white, terminating in flat horny appendages, 

 the colour of red sealing-wax ; these appendages 

 vary in number, some birds only having four or 

 five on each side, and others having as many as 

 eight ; the tail is also adorned with them in few 

 specimens, but such are very rare : the tail is 

 black, with a yellow tip j it is dashed with cine- 

 reous at the base : its under coverts are pale ches- 

 nut : legs black. 



The Bohemian Waxwing, as before observed, is 

 a native of Europe, and is occasionally captured in 

 this country : it is supposed to breed in Bohemia 

 and other parts of Germany, where they are very 

 abundant : it has been observed from St. Peters- 

 burgh to Italy, but in the latter country it is very 

 rare : it feeds on berries of all sorts, particularly 

 those of the mountain ash ; but of its nest we are 

 quite ignorant : this bird is said to be good eating. 



CAROLINA WAXWING. 

 ( Bombycilla carolinensis.) 



Bo. occipite cristato, abdomine folvo, remigibus secundariis apice 



membranaceo colorato. 

 Chatterer with a crested occiput, yellow belly, and the tips of 



the secondaries with a membranaceous appendage. 

 Bombycilla carolinensis. Briss. Orn, 2, 337« J • 



