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kinds. These facts I have myself been an eyewitness to. 
The female, if disturbed, darts from the nest in silence 
to a considerable distance ; no notes of wailing or lamentation 
are heard from either parent, nor are they even seen, notwith- 
standing you are in the tree examining the nest and young. 
These nests are less frequently found than many others, 
owing, not only to the comparatively few numbers of the birds, 
but to the remarkable muteness of the species. The season 
of love, which makes almost every other small bird musical, 
has no such effect on them ; for they continue, at that 
interesting period, as silent as before. 
This species is also found in Canada, where it is called 
Recollet , probably, as Dr Latham supposes, from the colour 
and appearance of its crest resembling the hood of an order of 
friars of that denomination. It has also been met with by 
several of our voyagers on the northwest coast of America, 
and appears to have an extensive range. 
Almost all the ornithologists of Europe persist in considering 
this bird as a variety of the European Chatterer, [A. gar r ulus,) 
with what justice or propriety a mere comparison of the two 
will determine. * The European species is very nearly twice 
the cubic bulk of ours ; has the whole lower parts of a uniform 
dark vinous bay ; the tips of the wings streaked with lateral 
bars of yellow ; the nostrils, covered with bristles the feathers 
* The small American species figured by our author, was by many con- 
sidered as only the American variety of that which was thought to belong to 
Europe and Asia alone. The fallacy of this opinion was decided by the 
researches of several ornithologists, and latterly confirmed, by the discovery 
in America of the B. garrulus itself, the description of which will form part 
of Vol. III. 
The genus Bombycilla of Brisson is generally adopted for these two birds, 
and will now also contain a third very beautiful and nearly allied species, 
discovered in Japan by the enterprizing, but unfortunate, naturalist Seibold, 
and figured in the Planches Coloriees of M. Temminck, under the name of 
B. phcenicoptera. It may be remarked, that the last wants the waxlike 
appendages to the wings and tail, at least so they are represented in M. 
Temminck’s plate ; but our own species sometimes wants them also Ed. 
•f Turton. 
