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BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 
ceous drab ; the feathers of the crown are elongated into a crest 
measuring nearly an inch and a half ; base of these feathers, 
blackish ; middle, white, whole neck and hind-head and breast, 
cinereous drab, slightly tinged with vinaceous, and passing by 
degrees on the posterior parts above and beneath into pure 
cinereous, slightly tinged with bluish, which predominates on 
the rump and upper tail-coverts. The black of the throat is 
somewhat margined with bright bay, and is separated from the 
black of the eye by a slight obliterated white line. The cine- 
reous of the belly and femorals is paler; the vent and lower 
tail-coverts are chestnut rufous, and the feathers very long. 
The wings measure four and a half inches in length, the second 
primary is somewhat longer than the first, the others decreasing 
in succession rapidly. The upper tail-coverts are cinereous 
drab, like the back, the lower whitish grey; quills, dusky 
black, much paler on their inner vane towards the base. The 
first is unspotted, the second has a slight mark of white on the 
outer web at tip. This mark increases in size successively on 
the following, becoming a longitudinal spot, much larger on 
the secondaries, four of which are furnished with bright red 
appendages. Each feather of the winglet is broadly white at 
tip, constituting a remarkable white spot on the wing, which 
appears to be on the primaries. No yellow whatever is ob- 
servable on the wing. The tail is three inches long, black, 
broadly tipped with pale yellow for half an inch, dark bluish 
grey at base. Tarse, which is three quarters of an inch long, 
and feet, black.* 
See vol. i. p. 106, for B. Americana and notes. — E d, 
