fire they do not emit the fmell common to animal fubftances, 
but the odour is far from impleafant, being flightly aromatic ; 
the fubftance is brittle, the number varies in different fubje£ls, 
and is not always the fame on both wings, the ufual number 
is from fix to nine on the wings ; in the coUedion of A. H. 
Kaworth, 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 ftragglers that we meet with. About 
Chriftmas 1803, a number were fhot in the neighbourhood of 
Camberwell, on« of which was brought alive and but flightly 
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 afh and fcrvice, 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 jnountain afh. They 
are faid to build in holes in trees. 
