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oth.ei' injuiy. In tlie most adult birds tlie yellow markings on the 
outer webs of the primaries are carried round the tip of each 
feather, with a more or less clearly defined white edging. One 
bird killed this season, a female by dissection, diflers from any I 
have ever seen, (though I have handled more than a hundred 
freshly killed specimens at different times,) in having no wax tips 
at all even in the most rudimentary state; I believe the l)ird 
fiom its general appeai’ance to be a young female, but as even tlie 
nestlings are known to show this peculiar feature, this is no 
question of age ; nor can I positively state any reliable distinction 
between the sexes, short of dissection ; young males and females 
and adult males and females, being, relatively, so much alike. 
\ aiiell s statement that temales have never more than five wax 
tips, is inaccurate, as I liave dissected specimens with six and seven 
in each wing ; the yellow and white markings on the primaries, 
being, in these bfids, as fine as in any adult male. By far the 
larger number of the birds killed here this winter, have proved to 
be males. Besides a few stragglers, we have had no waxwing 
years since the memorable winter of 18G6-7, when between the 
17th of November and the 7th of January, 144 specimens 
were killed, to my knowledge, in Norfolk only, and their 
abundance was noted in many other counties. Throughout that 
time the weather was extremely severe. Mr. Thos. Southwell 
when dissecting several of those recently sent to Norwich for 
preservation, found, in the stomachs of all but two, the remains of 
white-thorn haws ; the exceptions had been feeding on privet 
berries, the whole intestinal canal being stained a rich purple. 
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