il It a
Female
alh-colour, inclining much to the laft on the rump : from the
noftrils, over each eye, paffes a ftreak. of black to the hind head :
chin black : forehead chefnut: the bread: and belly pale purplifh
chefnut, growing- white towards the vent: the leffer wing coverts
arebrown-j the greater, farcheft from the body, black, with white
tips, forming a bar i the quills are black, the third and fourth
tipped on the outer margins with white,, the five following with
yellow; the fecondaries are afh-colour, tipped on the outer edge
with white ; befides which, as far as eight of thefe feathers have
the end of the Ihafts continued into a flat horny appendage, of the
colour of fine red fealing-wax : the tail-is. black, tipped with
yellow: legs black.
. It is faid that the females want the-red. appendages at the end
of the fecond quills*, as well as the; yellow marks on the
13 :: Place. This is ranked among the British birds, but is only feen with
us at uncertain times ; fuppofed to breed in Bohemia, and other
parts of Germany, but probably its fummer refidence is more
northward t . Thefe birds, are indeed common in Germany every
year, but moft fo once in feven.. With us, obferved to be moft
* This is probable, fTnce it is certainly fo in the American fpecies. „ But thefe
birds 'vary much in this charaderiftic ; for I have obferved. fo few as five in fome
fpecimens ; andrSufon mentions having feen a bird with feven. on one wing,, and
five on the other, as well as others with three only.
t This is not clear to me. ■ The American, or next fpecies, has no yellow on
the wings, in either fex. I have never met with one of thefe without.
X It is feen in plenty both at St. Peterjburgh and Mo/co<w,-m the winter j but
comes from the north, and departs again to the Arttic circle in fpring ; nor, is? it
ever known to breed in RuJJia. It is fcarce -in Sibiritx, and . has not been obferved.
beyond the river Lena, Mr. Pennant.
plenty
plenty in the northern parts of the ifland, vifiting annually the
neighbourhood of Edinburgh■ during winter; and feeds on the
berries of the mountain■ ajh; difappearing in fpring *. -They have
alfo been killed in Northumberland and Torkfhire frequently, as
well as now and then as far fouth as our metropolis f , and are. not
unfrequently met with both in France and Italy.gj ‘From our little
knowledge of the native, place of thefe birds, little, can be faid of
the neft, further than that it is faid to . make it in the holes of
rocks J. The general food is berries of all kinds, and in the feafon
grapes, of which they are faid to be fond. In countries where they
are plenty, are efteemed good food.
Ampelis Garrulus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 299. r. 6* t .
' Le Jafearde la Caroline, Brif. ten. ii. p. 337- $4*—**/• a,f- P' 4+1*
‘ Caquautototl, Raii Syn. p. 174.
: Chatterer of Carolina, Ed-vs. pi. 242.— Catejb. Car. i. pi. 46.—‘Arbi. Zool.
Br. Muf. Lev. MuJ\.
r p H I S is lefs than the European fpecies, and is much like it,
• but the belly is of a : pale yellow inftead of red : both
fexes have the wings of a plain colour.
T h e female has no appendages at the ends of the fecond quilts-;
and the plumage is lefs lively than in the male.
This fpecies is found in America, from the more northern parts
to. Carolina and Mexico ; but authors do not inform us of the
* Br. Zool. Flor. Scot.
f Phil, tran/.— One of thefe was lhot at Eltham, in the winter 1781, and is
now in my collection.
J In Tartary. Frifch.
[| And that it frequents the mountains (Fernandez). Buffbn alfo has met with
one which came from Cayenne,
£ manners
4-Var. A.
CAROLINA
CH.
Description.
Female.
Place*