A passerine bird of the genus Ampelis (Bombycilla), esp. A. garrulus, the Bohemian waxwing.
1817. J. F. Stephens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., X. II. 420. The Waxwings, which have been detached from the Chatterers by Monsieur Vieillot, have a most remarkable and peculiar appendage on the tips of some of the quills, which has very much the appearance of red sealing-wax. Ibid., 421. Bohemian Waxwing. Ibid., 422. Carolina Waxwing.
1876. Smiles, Sc. Nat., xi. 214. Among the rarer birds found in this district, were the Bohemian Waxwing or Chatterer (Bombycilla garrula).
1884. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., March, 616. The Carolina wax-wing, alias cedar or cherry bird, now.
1888. Lees & Clutterbuck, B.C. 1887 (1892), 348. A large flock of waxwings … was well worth seeing.
