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BOMBYCILLA GARRULA. 
calved nostrils. In fact, tlie genus as it now stands 
not the less for this aberration, an exceedingly natu^ 
one, though the two species that are now known f 1 
inhabit America are still more allied to each other if 111 ! 
either of them to the Japanese, the present (Bohemia 11 
differing chiefly by its larger size, mahogany-brown W. 
coverts, and cinereous belly, the iirst being white, i" |( 
the second yellowish, iu 'the cedar-bird,” which a 1 ’ 1 
wants the yellow and white markings on the wiw>- ^ 
the three species now comprehended in the genus oA 
is peculiar (o America, a second to eastern” Asia a' 1 
the present common to all the Arctic world. 
This small but natural group, at one time placed W 
Linue in the carnivorous genus Lanins, notwithstandiR 
its exclusively fi lin' i vo roils habits, was finally restoi’d 
by Inin to Ampelis, in which he was followed by Latha^ 
Bnssou placed it in Tardus, and llliger in Corf l,i ‘ 
Ornithologists now concur in regarding it as a nerd 1 *' 
disagreeing only a.s to the name, some calling it J W? 
byciphora, others Bomkycivora, though they 'all app**f 
to have lately united in favour of the more elegant a 1 ' 
prior termination of Bomby cilia. 
The wax wings, which we place in our family Scried^ 
having no other representative in Europe or NcW 1 ' 1 
America, are easily recognized by their short turrf 
bill, trigonal at base, somewhat compressed and curv‘d 
at tip, where both mandibles are stroiwlv notched 
their short feet, and rather long subacute’wings. H“ ! 
their most, curious trait consists in the small, flat oblorf 
appendages, resembling in colour and substance T& 
sealing-wax, found at the tips of the secondaries in tM 
adult. These appendages are merely the colour*' 
corneous prolongation of the shafts beyond the 
ot the feathers. I he new species from Japan is as 
have mentioned, at all times without them, as well 
the young m the two others. The plumage of all is ^ 
a remarkably fine and silky texture, lying extrem^f 
dose,- and they are all largely and pointedly crested, 
sexes hardly differing in this respect. 
The waxwings live in numerous flocks, keeping W 
