Black-throated Waxwing or Bohemian Chatterer
Bombycilla garrula, Vieillot [now Bombycilla garrulus]
Octavo edition, plate 245
Bombycilla garrula, Vieillot [now Bombycilla garrulus]
Octavo edition, plate 245
“In the autumn of 1832, whilst rambling near Boston, my sons saw a pair, which they pursued more than an hour, but without success. The most southern locality in which I have known it to be procured, is the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, where, as well as on Cong Island, several were shot in 1830 and 1832. The specimens from which I made the figures of the male and female represented in the plate, were given to me by my friend Thomas McUlloch of Pictou, in Nova Scotia, who procured several others in the winter of 1834.â€ÂÂÂÂ
John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 4, p. 166-167.
View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.
