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DEGLUBITRICES. 
Bohemian Chatterer. European Waxwing. 
Ampelis garrulus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 297. — Bombyciphora 
garrula, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 124. — Bombycilla garrula, 
Black- throated Waxwing, MacGiilivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 533. 
The birds which form the next ordinal group are all very 
easily recognised by their stout conical bill. In the struc- 
ture of their skeleton, wings, feet, and organs of sense, they 
differ very little from the Cantatrices and Yagatrices, which | 
they further resemble in having four pairs of inferior laryn- 1 
goal muscles. Their digestive apparatus is also similar, but | 
with this difference that the oesophagus is dilated into a kind I 
of crop, or rather half-crop, inclining to the right side, and i 
sometimes curving round the neck behind. All our small 
Finch-like birds belong to this group, to which I have else- 
where given the name of Huskers, they being in fact, the 
only birds that remove the shell or husk of seeds in their bill, 
before swallowing them. The only word that I can find ex- 
pressive of this is Deglubitores, to which a candid critic 
has been pleased to add another syllable, making it Deglu- 
bi6^tores. If the reader can find a better term, I will gladly 
adopt it^ 
ORDER VIII. DEGLUBITRICES. HUSKERS. 
Connected with the Larks on the one hand, with the 
Starlings and Crows on the other, as well as with the 
Buntings and Finches, is a tribe of birds nearly peculiar 
to America, and bearing the name of Icterinje : but of 
which we have no representatives in Britain. Allied to 
them are the Emberizin^, or Buntings, which gradually 
pass into the Passerinje, or Sparrows ; of both of which 
we have several species. A fourth group, the Tana- 
GRINJ 5 , allied to the last, and in some respects to the Pi- 
