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YEETEBRATA. 
tinguislied by a singular flesliy cylindrical appendage, often furnished with a few small feathers, 
which rises from the base of the bill. Its voice is peculiar, resembling the deep tolling of a bell. 
According to Waterton, it may be heard at a distance of nearly three miles during the heat of 
the day, when most of the feathered inhabitants of those tropical forests are hushed in silence. 
THH WAX-WING, 
THE CHATTEREES. 
The Ampelincs or True Chatterers have the gape wide, the bill broad at the base, depressed 
near the tip, and distinctly notched ; they are found in both hemispheres. 
Genus BOMBYCILLA : Bomhycilla—Ampelis of some authors. — Of this there are several 
species. The Eubopean Wax-Wing — Jaseur of the French ; Garrulo di Boemia of the Italians ; 
Gemeine Seidenschivantz of the Germans ; Silk-Tail of the English — B. Garrula, is known 
throughout the northern parts of both continents. It is a very handsome bird, about eight inches 
long, of a general grayish color, with a large patch on the throat and a band on the head of black, 
The crest on the crown of the head and the lower tail-coverts are brownish-orange; the primary 
wing-coverts are tipped with white; the primary and secondary quill-feathers are black, tipped 
with yellow, as are also the quills of the tail ; and the tertiaries are brownish-purple, tipped with 
white. Four of the secondaries, and from one to four of the tertials, according to the age of the 
bird, are terminated by small horny expansions of the shaft of the feathers, resembling, both in 
color and texture, red sealing-wax. The name of Bohemian Chatterer, commonly applied to this 
bird, appears to be peculiarly inappropriate, as it is by no means more abundant in Bohemia than 
in other parts of Europe, and its actual home and breeding-place is probably within the arctic 
circle. It is a winter visitor to France, England, &c. In Europe it- feeds upon the berries of 
the mountain ash, hawthorn, and ivy, which are all to be found abundantly during the winter 
upon the plants producing them ; in the high northern latitudes of America, to wd:iich it is here 
chiefly confined, though sometimes found as far south as Philadelphia, it eats the berries of the 
juniper. It also occasionally feeds upon insects, which it captures on the wing in the same 
manner as the fly-catchers. 
The American Wax-AYing, or Cedar-Bird, or Cherry-Bird, B. Carolinensis, is a familiar bird 
in all parts of the United States, migrating to the north in summer and the south in winter. 
It closely resembles the preceding, though it is smaller. It is known in all North America, 
from Canada to Mexico, and feeds upon different kinds of berries, especially those of the red 
cedar and cherries, and also upon insects. It bieeds in June, sometimes building in the cedars, 
but more commonly in orchards. The nest is composed of grass, and the eggs, which are three 
or four in number, are of a dingy bluish-wdiite color, variously spotted with black. When berries 
are abundant, as in the autumn and the beginning of summer, the birds become very fat, and are 
then in considerable esteem for the table. They fly in compact flocks of twenty to thirty ; the 
