AMPELIS GARRULUS. 
BOHEMIAN CHATTERER. 
Generic Character. 
Bill ftraigk, convex, curving towards the point, the upper 
mandible has a flight notch near the tip. 
Noftrils covered by the reflexed briftles. 
Toes four, three forward and one backward, the centre 
one connefted to the outer one at the bafe. 
Synonyms. 
Ampelis Garrulus. Lin, Syjl^ i. p, 297. 1. 
Waxen Chatterer. Br. ZooL 1. 112. 48. Ik 
fol 7. iah, 1. C. Ar5i. ZooL 207<» 
Laib. Syn, p. gi* t. p. 
A. Mont. Om. Bi5f. Bewick's 
Br. Birds. Ft. i.p. 114* 
T^H I S beautiful fpecles is in length eight inches, and in 
breadth about ^thirteen inches and a half, and it weighs near 
three ounces; bill ilrong, having a fmall notch in the upper 
mandible near the tip ; feathers on the hind head long, of a 
beautiful filk-like appearance, thefe it ere£ls at pleafure, and 
moft generally during the time it is uttering its note ; each of the 
fecondary quiil feathers have at their extremities, a fmall flat 
appendage of the moft beautiful fcarlet colour, very fimilar in 
appearance to red fealing wax, thefe appendages differ from all 
other animal matter, for on being expofcd to the adion of 
