158 COMMON GOLD-CREST. 



we receive our winter visiters. Edwards gives 

 part of Asia ; Temminck, Japan ; and Mr Yarrell 

 states, that the Zoological Society have received 

 specimens from Trebizond. 



The male Gold-crest has the cheeks, sides of 

 the neck, and upper parts, clear wax yellow ; on 

 the rump the feathers are lengthened as in some 

 of the Laniadae, and are disconnected in their 

 texture ; succeeding the yellowish tips there is a 

 band on each side of dull yellowish white, which 

 gives a wavy or pale appearance to those parts 

 where the feathers are smoothed down. The 

 feathers on the crown are soft and silky, of a 

 brilliant orange in the centre, shading to gamboge 

 yellow on the front and sides, and on each side 

 of this runs a band of deep black, setting off, as 

 it were, their beautiful ornament. The under 

 parts are yellowish gray, darkest on the breast ; 

 feathers of the wings brownish black, margined 

 with wax yellow. The secondaries have a black 

 bar at their base, which is relieved by the white 

 tips of the coverts forming a narrow band before 

 it. The tail is also brownish black, edged with 

 wax yellow ; feet and legs are pale wood brown. 

 In the female, the crest is of a less intense colour, 

 almost wholly gamboge yellow, deepening in tint 

 in the centre. The rest of the plumage is 

 scarcely so brightly coloured, but in other respects 

 it does not vary. 



