o9 4 AMPELID A. 
A female described by Dr. Richardson had the marks 
on the tips of the primaries untinged with yellow ; a nar- 
rower yellow tip to the tail, and a smaller and less in- 
tensely black mark on the chm. 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. 
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