Chatterer

Chatterer, a significant popular name, often applied to the birds of a small family (Ampelidae) of finch-like Perching birds (Insessores). The short broad beak with only a hint of a hook, the soft plumage, and tolerably long wings are characteristics of the family. Only about nine species, of small size, are known, and confined to the warmer parts of the nearctic and palearctic regions. The Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garrulus), living in the north of Europe, Asia, and America, but coming south in winter, sometimes in vast numbers, and the Cedar Bird of America are the best-known examples. See WAXWING.