_Diagnosis._--Coloration of adults: General color Olive-Brown, shading insensibly from clear Smoke Gray of upper tail coverts and rump to Cinnamon-Drab anteriorly, heightening on head and forehead to Hazel; narrow frontal line, lores, broader mask through eye, chin, and upper throat, Sooty Black; under tail-coverts Cinnamon-Brown; tail Smoke Gray, deepening to Blackish Mouse Gray distally, and tipped with Lemon Yellow; wings Blackish Mouse Gray; primaries tipped with sharp spaces of Lemon Yellow or White, or both; secondaries with White spaces at ends of outer web, shafts usually ending with enlarged, horny red appendages; primary coverts tipped with White; bill Blackish Slate and paler at base; feet Black. Coloration of young: Much like adult, but general color duller; some streaking on venter and back; chin, throat, and malar region dull White. Three subspecies. =Bombycilla garrula garrula= (Linnaeus) Bohemian Waxwing _Bombycilla garrula garrula_ (Linnaeus), Syst. Nat., 10th Ed., 1758:55. _Diagnosis._--Coloration: As described for the species, but darkest of the three subspecies; tending to be more Vinaceous dorsally than either _pallidiceps_ or _centralasiae_. _Measurements._--Wing 113.5, tail 63.1, culmen 12.5, tarsus 20.7. _Range._--Europe; breeds north to northern Russia and Norway, south to about 65 deg. N latitude; winters south to England and Ireland, southern France, northern Italy, and Turkey. =Bombycilla garrula centralasiae= Poljakov Bohemian Waxwing _Bombycilla garrula centralasiae_ Poljakov, Mess. Orn. vi:137, 1915. _Diagnosis._--Coloration: As described for the subspecies _garrula_, but less Vinaceous dorsally, and more Cinnamon; venter lighter gray than _garrula_, and much paler than _pallidiceps_. _Measurements._--Wing 114.7, tail 63.0, culmen 12.2, tarsus 21.0. _Range._--Asia; breeds northern Siberia south to Vladivostok; winters to Turkestan and central eastern China and Japan. =Bombycilla garrula pallidiceps= Reichenow Bohemian Waxwing _Bombycilla garrula pallidiceps_ Reichenow, Orn. Monats. 16:191, 1908. _Diagnosis._--Coloration: As described for the species, but more grayish above and below than _B. g. garrula_; darker gray than in _centralasiae_. _Measurements._--Wing 115.1, tail 71.7, culmen 12.6, tarsus 21.1. _Range._--Breeds from western Alaska to northern Mackenzie and northwestern Manitoba south to southern British Columbia, southern Alberta, northern Idaho, and possibly Colorado (Bergtold 1924) and Montana (Burleigh 1929); winters east to Nova Scotia and irregularly over much of Canada, and south irregularly to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Colorado, California, Arizona, and Texas. =Bombycilla japonica= (Siebold) Japanese Waxwing _Bombycilla japonica_ (Siebold), Nat. Hist. Jap., St. No. 2:87, 1824.