bohemian waxwing. 75 
writers^!? 0 *} " e do uot bnd recorded by English 
came under M T* n th , 0< ! Ft,| '™ary, 1822, when a lew 
again obser ■ , , >by 8 inspection, and several were 
of 1823 r' |l( curing the severe storm in the winter 
to similar 1 . * 011 . 6 Continent, its returns are subject 
memoir ]„* { er ^ a, . u J?: du M. Neeker’s very interesting 
road, that f - ^ P, 9 11 ^ le l“ rds of Geneva, we 
considerable 01 ? 1 beginning of this century only two 
one in r„, tngbts have been observed in that canton, 
when thev w ry ’ 18 ° 7, a " d thc other in January, 1814, 
there, all 1 ],,,, ve fy numerous, and spent the winter 
persedover ? ll - ln ^ ^ arcb - 1 " 1807 they were dis- 
seen near Tr i ®V at ! lor, ‘ on °f western Europe, and were 
What extent c gh tlle drst da J s ot that year, 
this continent °‘ country they inhabit or frequent in 
unable to «? , , whether numerous or not, we are 
obtained tn -\i' Fbe s P ec ' m en here described was 
range ofYtu.n , "' tb others, from the northwestern 
'o spread . - Mountains, and the species appears 
by hunters, .if 1 ?* :ls ' ve have been credibly informed 
shot a I;..] IU , cedar birds of a large kind” have been 
distan 0 (, a. ® beyond the Mississippi, at a very great 
d°r s this ° .•'* S P°^ " here ours were obtained. Thus 
earth tf les oxt end its range round the whole 
Rocky Mount ° c 9 asts ot Europe eastwardly to the 
conceive «1 * H D j\ ulcr * ca » and we are at a loss to 
this side . f t? 't y'mibl never have been observed on 
Ver v t lC M'ssissippi. 
clegaur i.; 1 ?' ’ s '| n °wn ot the peculiar habits of these 
On different' kind* nf • as . sem . l,lc j n large flocks, and feed 
during sun ' ju> c y berries, or on insects, which 
common S r S ‘? te , their principal food. In 
Scries of the mouu&Sh Jd^hVl V "* f °" d * ° f 
greedy of grapes and also tl P h y t0 >?cca are extremely 
juuiper nnTi iL,V i i • °* tli0U S h in a ^ ess degree, of 
other f rn ; f ti° ernes, apples, currants, figs, and 
ccpeatedlv h •l° y n nnk ^"-dipping in the? hill 
love of their SOC , lal ^position, and general 
^YMual^ speegs, these birds appear susceptible of 
se ntiS 0 fb ( m!w,l 1 ’ M ll P’ fe }* a Particular 
oi benevolence, even independent of reciprocal 
