. An illustrated manual of British birds . ippedwith buftish-white ; lower back grey ; tail-coverts nearly white above,turning to grey below ; tail-feathers chiefly black with white tips andwith white outer webs and bases to the exterior pair; under partsbuftish-white, darker on the flanks. Length 7i in.; wing 3*9 female has all the colours less bright and the upper partstinged with rufous and buff. The young bird, represented in theupper figure, is russet, streaked and mottled with darker brown anddull white on the upper parts, and with wide rufous margins to thequills ; under parts mu
. An illustrated manual of British birds . ippedwith buftish-white ; lower back grey ; tail-coverts nearly white above,turning to grey below ; tail-feathers chiefly black with white tips andwith white outer webs and bases to the exterior pair; under partsbuftish-white, darker on the flanks. Length 7i in.; wing 3*9 female has all the colours less bright and the upper partstinged with rufous and buff. The young bird, represented in theupper figure, is russet, streaked and mottled with darker brown anddull white on the upper parts, and with wide rufous margins to thequills ; under parts much barred with brownish ; bill yellowish-horn. ViREONiD/E.—Mr. Edwin Brown (Mosleys Nat. Hist, of Tutbury,pp. 94 and 385, pi. 6) has described and figured a male of theAmerican Red-eyed Flycatcher, Vireo olivaceus, which a Derbybird-catcher known as Hatter Dick asserted that he had captured,with a female not preserved, at Chellaston in May 1859. Severalspecies have been admitted to the British list on no better evidence! 147. THE WAX WING. Ampelis gakrulus, Linnaeus. For upwards of two centuries this beautiful bird has been knownto visit our islands at irregular intervals, and sometimes, as in thewinters of 1686, 1830-31, 1834-35,1849-50, 1866-67, and 1872-3,in considerable numbers. As might be expected in the case of aninhabitant of the Arctic regions, the visits of the Waxwing have beenmore frequent in the northern and eastern portions of Great Britainthan on the western side, and do not appear to have extended tothe Outer Hebrides; while to Ireland they have been few and farbetween. In England it has been obtained in almost every county,including the south and the extreme south-west ; and on the springmigration, in Norfolk up to the first week in May. Its visits dependon the severity of the weather on the Continent, but it does notfollow that the same winter should be rigorous in the British Islands The wanderings of the Waxwing are not known to extend in asout
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