BRITISH BIRDS, 
83 
THE CHATTERER. 
SILK TAIL, OR WAXEN CHATTERER. 
( Ampelis Garrulus , Lin .— -Le Jafeur de Boheme y BufF.) 
This beautiful bird is about eight inches in 
length : Its bill is black, and has a fmall notch at 
the end ; its eyes, which are black and fhining, 
are placed in a band of black, which paffes from 
the bafe of the bill to the hind part of the head; 
its throat is black ; the feathers on the head are 
long, forming a creft ; all the upper parts of the 
body are of a reddiih afh colour, the breaft and 
belly inclining to purple ; vent and upper tail co- 
verts nearly white ; the tail feathers are black, tip- 
ped with pale yellow ; the quills are black, the 
