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COMMON GOLD- CREST. 
we receive our winter visiters. Edwards gives 
part of Asia ; Teraminck, Japan ; and Mr Yarrell 
states, that the Zoological Society have received 
specimens from Trebizond. 
The male Gold-crest has the cheeks, sides of 
the neck, and upper parts, clear wax yellow ; on 
the rump the feathers are lengthened as in some 
of the Laniadas, and are disconnected in their 
texture ; succeeding the yellowish tips there is a 
band on each side of dull yellowish white, which 
gives a wavy or pale appearance to those parts 
where the feathers are smoothed down. The 
feathers on the crown are soft and silky, of a 
brilliant orange in the centre, shading to gamboge 
yellow on the front and sides, and on each side 
of this runs a band of deep black, setting off, as 
it were, their beautiful ornament. The under 
parts are yellowish gray, darkest on the breast ; 
feathers of the wings brownish black, margined 
with wax yellow. The secondaries have a black 
bar at their base, which is relieved by the white 
tips of the coverts forming a narrow band before 
it. The tail is also brownish black, edged with 
wax yellow ; feet and legs are pale wood brown. 
In the female, the crest is of a less intense colour, 
almost wholly gamboge yellow, deepening in tint 
in the centre. The rest of the plumage is 
scarcely so brightly coloured, but in other respects 
it does not vary. 
