BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 359 
the whole crown ; throat also deep black. The anterior part 
of the head is bright bay, behind passing gradually into vina- 
ceous drab ; the feathers of the crown are elongated into a crest 
measuring nearly an inch and a half; base of these feathers, 
blackish ; middle, white ; whole neck and hind head and breast, 
cinereous drab, slightly tinged with vinaceous, and passing by 
degrees on the posterior parts above and beneath into pure 
cinereous, slightly tinged with bluish, which predominates on 
the rump and upper tail-coverts. The black of the throat is 
somewhat margined with bright bay, and is separated from 
the black of the eye by a slight obliterated white line. The 
cinereous of the belly and femorals is paler; the vent and 
lower tail-coverts are chestnut rufous, and the feathers very 
long. The wings measure four and a half inches in length; the 
second primary is somewhat longer than the first, the others 
decreasing in succession rapidly. The upper tail-coverts are 
cinereous drab, like the back, the lower whitish grey ; quills, 
dusky black, much paler on their inner vane towards the base. 
The first is unspotted, the second has a slight mark of white 
on the outer web at tip. This mark increases in size succes- 
sively on the following, becoming a longitudinal spot, much 
Jarger on the secondaries, four of which are furnished with 
bright red appendages. Hach feather of the winglet is broadly 
white at tip, constituting a remarkable white spot on the wing, 
which appears to be on the primaries. No yellow whatever is 
observable on the wing. The tail is three inches long, black, 
broadly tipt with pale yellow for half an inch, dark bluish 
grey at base. ‘'Tarse, which is three-quarters of an inch long, 
and feet, black.* 
* See vol. i. p. 106, for B. Americana and notes.—Ep, 
