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Uegulus auricapittus, — -vulgaris of Cuvier,- — Sylvia —, Motacilla regulus, of 
older writers,—le Roitelet ordinaire, Regolo, It. —-Gekronter Sanger, G.—- 
A male and female specimen. 
Pine Grosbeak, Cory this enucleator ( Pyrrhula , and Loxia enucleator, of 
Temminck and of Linnaeus), —Bouvreuil dur-bec, Fr. —Ciufolotto snocciolatore, 
It. —Haaken Kernbeisser, G. —This beautiful bird, formerly arranged among the 
Bullfinches, exhibits, in Cuvier’s opinion, characters sufficiently decided to justify 
the institution of a new genus. Cory thus forms the connecting link between 
Pyrrhula and Loxia ; resembling the former in its haunts, habits, and style of 
colouring;—the latter, in the construction of its beak. The generic characters 
are:—Beak short, hard, thick; everywhere rounded, and slightly hooked at the 
point. Nostrils basal, linear, rounded, and covered with thickly-set, hair-like 
feathers. Tarsi short. Toes entirely divided. Wings longer than in Pyrrhula. 
Tail moderate, and slightly forked. Its natural habitation is the Arctic Circle, 
and the- extensive Pine-forests of the North : its food, the seeds of the Pine-cone, 
and wild berries. It is merely an occasional visitant of Britain. An adult male 
and female are the subjects of the plate before us. The female is admirably 
figured at p. 262 of Vol. II. of Northern Zoology; and the male and female 
delineated, and described, by Wilson and Bonaparte, in Vols. I. and III. of 
Jardine’s Edition of American Ornithology. 
Waxen Chatterer, Bombycivora garrula.* —The genus Bombycivora, or Bom- 
bycilla, as now constituted, comprehends three species : the American Cedar-bird, 
B. Americana, vel Carolinensis; the Red-winged Chatterer, B. phoenicoptera ,—- 
discovered, in Japan, by the ill-fated Siebold, and figured in Temminck’s Planches 
Coloriees ; and the beautiful subject of the present plate,—Grand-Jaseur, Fr. —■ 
Garrulo di-Bohemia, It. —-Europaischer oder Rothlichgrauer Seidenschwantz, G. —■ 
an inhabitant of the Arctic regions, and a rare visitant of the British islands. 
The curious wax-like appendages, which ordinarily adorn the tips of the secondary 
quills, and constitute one of the distinguishing characteristics of the genus, do 
not invariably exist. They are not represented in Temminck’s figure of B . 
phcenicoptera. C 
Red-breasted Merganser, Mergus serrator, —Harle huppe, Fr\ —Mergo 
oca di lungo becco, It. —Langschnabeliger Sager, G.—An elegant bird, finely 
illustrated by figures of the adult male and female. The only one of the four 
British species of the genus which lives throughout the year, and breeds, in these 
islands. What connection the spurious Latin term serrator, literally signifying, 
if it possess any meaning at all, a sawyer, can have with this beautiful aquatic 
bird, we are quite at a loss to imagine. It is high time all these revolting 
mummeries were swept, with an indignant hand, from the fair face of science, 
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