. Oiseaux : les éléments de l'ornithologie . Le waxwing de Bohème (Ampelis garruhis). Des oiseaux jamais trouvés dans notre pays, et son nom est dérivé de curieux appendices, comme de petits morceaux de cire d'étanchéité, qui sont attachés à certaines plumes de son aile. Le Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), qui est le meilleur-knownde nos Parulines, et l'un des premiers arrivants du printemps (thesong est considéré comme à peine inférieur en qualité à thatof the.Nightingale), est le type d'un groupe au sein duquel l'INTEODUCTION. 107 Parulines de lisière et la Wren de bois sont également contenues. Il se compose d'environ deux centir

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. Birds: the elements of ornithology . The Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garruhis). Birds ever to be found in our country, and its name is derivedfrom curious appendages, like small pieces of sealing-wax, whichare attached to certain feathers of its wing. The Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is the best-knownof our Warblers, and one of the earlier arrivals of the spring (thesong of which is considered as hardly inferior in quality to thatof the.Nightingale), is the type of a group within which the INTEODUCTION. 107 Sedge Warblers and the Wood Wren are also contained. Itembraces about two hundred and ninety species. They are alldull-coloured Birds inhabiting the Old World, having their head-quarters in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.But there are a number of other Birds, also called Warblers, Fig. 113.. The Blackcap {Sylvia atricapilla). but distinguished as American Warblers (Mniotiltidce), ofwhich there are some hundred and thirty-seven kinds. The songster whose note is the most familiar to the inhabi-tants of these islands is, perhaps, the Thrush (Turdus mvsieus), and it is the type of a large cosmopolitan family of Birds num-bering fully three hundred and forty-four species. Amongst io8 ELEMENTS OF OENITHOIOGT.Fig. 114.

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