994 BIRDS—AMPELID A. 
is very complicated and formal, to judge from the number of times they 
alight and rise again, all the while keeping up a noisy chatter. It is 
not. until twilight deepens into evening that all are huddled together in 
silence and slumber, and their slumbers are often disturbed by some 
youngster who falls out of bed, amid the derisive laughter of his neigh- 
bors, which is changed to petulant scolding as he clambers over them to 
his perch, tumbling others down. All at once the scene of last nighi’s 
disturbance is quiet and deserted, for the birds have flown to unknown 
southern lands, where they find less crowded beds, and shorter, warmer 
nights. 
FAMILY AMPELIDA. THE CHATTERERS. 
Primaries ten, the first Jess than half the second. Basal joint of middle toe not shorter 
than that of inner toe; united to the outer for about two-thirds, to the inner for about 
one-half, its length. Tarsus not longer than middle toe and claw. Gonys less than half 
the length of under jaw. Bill triangular, much depressed at base, moderately notched, 
and hooked at tip. 
Sub-jamily AMPELINE. Waxwings. 
Nostrils linear, more or less covered by frontal feathers. Wings long, acute, with ten 
primaries, bunt the first very short and displaced (ou tho outer side of the second), so as 
to be readily overlooked. Inner quills as a rule, and sometimes the tail feathers, tipped 
with horny appendages, like red sealing-wax. Tail short, square, the under coverts 
highly developed, reaching nearly to its end. Feet weak; tarsus shorter than middle 
toe and claw. ; 
GENUS AMPELIS. Linnzus. 
Head with a well developed broad soft crest. 
AMPELIS GARRULUS Linneeus: 
Bohemian Waxwing. 
Bombycilla garrula, KiIrnTLAND, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xl. 1841, 20.—StoR#R, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1845, 52.—REaD, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1653, 343; Proe. Phila. 
Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 397. 
Ampelis garrulus, BAIRD, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 317.—KIRKPATRICK, Ohio Farmer, viii, 
1859, 339.—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 364, 374; Reprint, 6; Food 
of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875; 565; Reprint, 5.—BairD, BREWER 
and Ripaway, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 397.—Couss, Birds of Col. Val., 1878, 461, 467. 
Bohemian Waxwing, KIRTLAND, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xiii, 1852, 218; Ohio Farmer, 
ix, 1860, 91. 
Ampelis garrulus, LINNAUS, Syst. Nat., 1, 1758. 
Bombycilla garrula, ViIEILLOT, Ency. Meth., ii, 1823, 766. 
General color brownish-ash, shading insensibly from the clear ash of the tail and its 
upper coverts and rump into a reddish-tinged ash anteriorly, this peculiar tint height- 
ening on the head, especially on the forehead and sides of the head, into orange-brown. 
