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THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 
Bombycilla garrula. 
PLATE XI. 
Ampelis garrulus, Linn. — Bombicivora garrula, Temm . — 
Garrulus Bobemicus, Ray. — - Bombycilla Boliemica, 
JBriss Bomhemian Chatterer, European Chatterer, 
and Bohemian Waxwing, of modern British authors. 
This beautiful species has now been many 
times killed and seen in Britain, though its ap- 
pearances are very uncertain both in regard to 
time and numbers. A few have occurred from 
time to time in the southern and midland coun- 
ties of England. In Ireland we have the autho- 
rity of Mr Thompson for notices of its appear- 
ance, and in Scotland it has been occasionally 
seen and recorded during the last fifty years, and 
we possess a specimen shot on the Calton Hill, 
near Edinburgh. In Europe it appears to come 
and depart in the same straggling and uncertain 
manner, while in America it is also a rare bird, 
and confined to the northern parts. When seen 
in this country, they are assembled in flocks of 
various numbers, sometimes consisting only of a 
few, and at others of considerable numbers. 
Their food, at these times, is entirely the various 
kinds of winter berries ; two shot on the Eng- 
lish Border, which we had an opportunity of 
examining, were filled with the berries of the 
holly, and the same observations have been made 
by Mr Selby. At other times, insects form a 
