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5. Ampelis phenicopterum. 
This lovely bird is much more nearly related to A. garrulus than to 
A. cedrorum, having, like the former, a very long crest, black throat, 
cinnamon-rufous forehead and cheeks, and rufous crissum ; the latter, 
however, is stained, more or less, with blood-red. It also agrees more 
nearly with A. garrulus in size, and like that species has the outer web 
(sometimes inner web also) of the primaries tipped with white. The 
tip of the tail, however, instead of being yellow, as in the two American 
species, is of an exquisite rose-red color, and the greater wing-coverts are, 
for their exposed portion, dark purplish red. What is most remarka- 
ble, however, is that neither sex possesses the wax-like appendages to 
the shafts of the secondaries that are so characteristic of both A. gar- 
rulus and A. cedrorum, although in occasional specimens (as No. 91596, 
é ad.) they are developed to a very minute degree on the two inner- 
most feathers. In perfect plumage, the outer webs of the secondaries 
are tipped with a narrow crescentic bar of pure rose-red ; the outer webs 
of the primaries are tipped with clear rose-pink (or “ pink madder”), 
and the inner webs tipped, transversely, with white. In four out of 
five specimens sent, however, there is no white at all on the inner webs 
of the primaries, while the outer web of each has a longitudinal bar of 
pure white. In a male and a female the red spots are wanting on the 
secondaries, which are concolored throughout; but in two others, both 
males, the secondaries have the red spots, very small in one, well de- 
veloped in the other. 
6. Leucosticte brunneonucha. 
The series includes ten specimens, all in winter plumage, and with 
yellow bills. Of one, the sex is not determined ; but of the others, three 
are males and six are females. Of the latter, two are quite as brightly 
colored as the brightest male, while the third is very nearly equal in rich- 
ness of coloration to the dullest of the three males. The other three 
females, however, are very much duller colored, and are probably young 
birds in their first winter. 
7. ASgiothus linaria. 
There are three specimens, two of them from Sapporo, being cage 
birds, the third a wild bird from Tate-Yama. They are decidedly refer- 
able to linaria as distinguished (by me) from exilipes, but look a little 
different from North American specimens, and may, on comparison, 
prove to belong to a distinet race. 
8. Loxia albiventris. 
This Crossbill is more like L. curvirostra, of Europe, than the Amer- 
ican species, or race (L. americana). 
