FEmMaLe. 
PLACE. 
CM AT TE RIE R. 
afh-colour, inclining much to the laft on the rump: from the 
noftrils, over each eye, paffes a ftreak of black to the hind head: 
chin black : forehead chefnut: the breaft and belly pale purplith 
chefnut, growing white towards the vent: the leffer wing coverts 
are brown; the greater, fartheft from the body, black, with white 
tips, forming a bar: the quills are black, the third and fourth 
tipped on the outer margins with white, the five following with 
yellow; the fecondaries are afh-colour, tipped on the outer edge 
with white ; befides which, as far as eight of thefe feathers have 
the end of the fhafts continued into a flat horny appendage, of the 
colour of fine red fealing-wax: the tail is black, tipped with 
yellow: legs black. 
It is faid that the females want the red appendages at the end 
of the fecond quills *, as well as the yellow marks on the 
wings {. 
This is ranked among the Briti/b birds, but is only feen with 
us at uncertain times; fuppofed to breed in Bohemia, and other 
parts of Germany, but probably its fummer refidence is more 
northward {. Thefe birds are indeed common in Germany every 
year, but moft fo once in feven.. With us, obferved to be moft 
* This is probable, fince it is certainly fo in the American /pecies. But thefe 
birds vary much in this charatteriftic ; for I have obferved fo few as five in fome 
fpecimens ; and 8uffon mentions having feen a bird with feven on one wing, and 
five on the other, as well as others with three only. . 
+ This is not clear to me. The American, or next fpecies, has no yellow on 
the wings in either fex. I have never met with one of thefe without. 
} Isis feen in plenty both at St. Pererfourgh and Mofcow, in the winter; but 
comes from the north, and departs again to the 4réc circle in {pring ; nor is it 
ever known to breed in Ruffa. It is fcarce in Sibiria, and has not been ob- 
ferved beyond the river Leaa. Mr. Pennant. 
plenty 
