BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



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tensely black mark on the chin. Very old males have 

 sometimes as many as eight red appendages to the wing- 

 feathers ; the females seldom more than five. 



Young birds have no waxlike appendages during their 

 first year ; and the same may be said of the young of 

 the American species. Neither sex of the new species 

 from Japan, described by M. Temminck, exhibits waxlike 

 appendages at any age ; I have not, therefore, included 

 this peculiarity in the generic characters here given. 





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