BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 
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body, purplish red, tinged with gray, particularly 
on the under parts, where it is also paler, and on 
the cheeks and auriculars it is slightly tinged with 
chestnut red ; the rump and upper tail coverts 
are smoke gray ; the under tail coverts are dull 
chestnut-brown ; the quills are black, the second, 
third, and fourth tipped with white, which also 
runs a short way along the outer webs, and on 
the fourth is tinted with yellow, the other quills 
have the outer webs, for half an inch, gamboge 
yellow, the whole forming a line when the wing 
is closed j the bastard quills are also black, 
tipped with white ; the secondaries are smoke 
gray, tinged with purplish gray on the inner 
webs. In what we consider to be adult birds, 
the shaft of the feather is elongated, and at the 
tip is broadened into a flat oval appendage, similar 
to what is observed in some of the Gallinaceous 
birds, the Ibis lamelligera, See. and is of a bril- 
liant scarlet ; the inner web of the feather borders 
this for about half its length, but the outer is 
stopped near its commencement, and there exhi- 
bits a triangular patch of white, sometimes slightly 
tinged with yellow, and when the wing is closed, 
continues more broadly the line of the markings 
on the quills ; the tail is black, slightly tinged 
with gray, the feathers for a quarter of an inch 
tipped with gamboge yellow. These feathers 
also are sometimes tipped with an oval scarlet 
appendage, always narrower than when present 
on the secondaries, and sometimes occurring on 
only a few of the feathers. 
