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ble slightly concave, with three ridges ; tongue triangular, 
concave, horny, deep slit, with two slender points ; oesopha- 
gus very wide, much dilated about the middle ; stomach ra- 
ther small, elliptical, muscular ; intestine short and extreme- 
ly wide ; coeca very small. 
245. 1. Bombycilla garrula, Vieill. Black-throated Wax- 
wing. — Bohemian Chatterer. 
Plate CCCLXIII. Male and Female. 
General colour light greyish-brown, passing behind in ash-grey, 
before into brownish-orange, of which colour are the forehead, a patch 
on each side of the throat near the base of the bill, and the feathers 
under the tail ; a band of deep black from the nasal membrane over 
the eye to the top of the head, where it is concealed by the crest ; 
feathers at the base of the lower mandible and a narrow streak below 
the eye, white ; upper part of throat deep black ; feathers of the wings 
greyish-black ; primary coverts largely tipped with white ; primary 
quills with a bright yellow, secondary with a white elongated spot at 
the end of the outer web, and tipped with oblong wax-red appendages ; 
tail light grey at the base, gradually shaded into deep black, with a 
broad band of bright yellow. Female similar to the male, but some- 
what smaller. Oblong waxen appendages to the secondary quills, 
varying from seven to three, sometimes wanting, especially in young 
birds ; males with the shafts of the tail-feathers very slightly enlarged 
at the end, and bright red. Carefully compared with European spe- 
cimens. 
Male, 9|, 16i. 
From New York, eastward and northward, to the Fur Countries. 
Bombycilla garrula, European Chatterer, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 237. 
Bombycilla garrula. Bo nap. Syn. p. 438. 
Bombycilla garrula, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. iii. pi. 16. 
European Waxen Chatterer, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 579. 
Bohemian Chatterer, Bombycilla garrula, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 462. 
246. 2. Bombycilla Carolinensis, Briss. Cedar Waxwing. — 
Cedar Bird. 
Plate XL III. Male and Female. 
General colour light greyish-brown, passing behind into ash-grey, 
before into pale brownish-red, of which colour is the upper part of the 
head ; a black band on the forehead passing backwards over the eye 
to the occiput, and margined above and below by a narrow white 
band ; feathers in the angle of the lower mandible black ; abdomen 
pale yellow ; lower tail-coverts white ,* wings and tail dull leaden-blue, 
darker toward the end ; primaries with a very small pale yellow spot 
