fire they do not emit the fmell common to animal fubftances^ 

 but the odour is far from unpleafant, being {lightly aromatic 5 

 the fubftance is brittle, the number varies in different fubjecls, 

 and is not always the fame on both wings, the ufual number 

 is from fix to nine on the wings ; in the collection of A. H. 

 Haworth, Efq. of Chelfea, is a fpecimen that has fome of 

 thefe appendages on the tail. Colours of the fexes are nearly 

 the fame with this exception, the female has white on the 

 wing where the male has yellow, and it is wholly deftitute of 

 the above-named appendages. 



In fome years this beautiful bird has been found in many 

 parts of this kingdom, its vifits are very irregular, and they 

 feem only accidental flragglers that we meet with. About 

 Chriftmas 1803, a number were mot in the neighbourhood of 

 Camberwell, one of which was brought alive and but (lightly 

 hurt, to our friend Mr. T. G. Ingall, of Walworth, but as it 

 would not take any kind of food, it died in a few days ; from 

 this fpecimen our figure was coloured : its common food is the 

 berries of the mountain alh and fervice, on failure of which, 

 it will take thofe of the privet and hawthorn. Pennant fays 

 thefe birds annually appear in the vicinity of Edinburgh, 

 where they feed on the berries of the mountain afh. They 

 are faid to build in holes in trees. 



