394 AMPELID^E. 



A female described by Dr. Richardson had the marks 

 on the tips of the primaries imtinged with yellow ; a nar- 

 rower yellow tip to the tail, and a smaller and less in- 

 tensely black mark on the chin. Very old males have 

 sometimes as many as eight red appendages to the wing- 

 feathers ; the females never 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, exhibit waxlike 

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

 this peculiarity in the generic characters here given. 



