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one side, sometimes on the other. This singular beak enables them 

 to tear out the seeds from under the scales of the pine-cones. 



The European species is very common wherever there are 

 evergreen trees; it is, 



Loxia curvirostra, L., Enl. 218. (The Crossbill.) The 

 plumage of the young male is of a vivid red, with brown wingsj 

 that of the adult, and of the female, is greenish above, yellowish 

 beneath. Two races of them, also, are known, which differ as 

 to size, and even, as it is said, in their notes, and in the form 

 of the beak, Lox. curvirostra, Naum. 110, and Lox. pytiopsitta- 

 CMS, Bechst., Naum. 109.(1) 

 We cannot remove from the Bullfinches and the Crossbills 



CORYTHUS, Cuv.(2) 



The point of whose completely arched beak curves over the lower 



mandible. The most known species, 



Loxia enudeator, L.; Enl. 135, 1; or better, Edw. 123, 124; 

 Vieill. Gal. 53; Naum. 112. The Pine Grosbeak inhabits' the 

 north of both continents, and lives in the same way as the Cross- 

 bill. It is red, or reddish, the feathers of the tail and wings 

 black edged with white.(3) 



The north of the globe produces neighbouring species of 

 equal beauty as to colour, individuals of which sometimes find 

 their way into Germany. (4) 



CoLiuS;, Gm.(5) 



The Colies also approximate considerably to the preceding birds. 

 Their beak is short, thick, conical, and somewhat compressed, its 

 two mandibles being arcuated, but without extending beyond each 

 other; the quills of their tail are cuneiform, and very long; their 

 thumb, as in Cypselus, is capable of being directed forwards like 

 the other toes; their fine and silky feathers are generally cinereous. 

 They inhabit Africa and India, climb something in the manner of 



(1) Add Lox. kucoptera, Lath. Vieill. Gal. 53, and Wils. Am. Oriilth. 



(2) Corythus, Greek name of an unknown bird. Vieillot has changed this 

 name into that of Sthobilipuaga. 



(3) Loxia flamingo, (Sparm. Mus. Carl. pi. xvii, ) appears to me to be a mere 

 albino variety of the enudeator. The Lox. psittacea of the Sandwich Islands, Lath. 

 Syn. II, pi. xlii, or Psittaciugstra iderocephata, Temm. Col. 457, appears to 

 differ from Corythus onlj' in a little greater prolongation of the curved point of the 

 beak. 



(4) Lox. erythrina. Pall, ov Fringilla flamrnea, L.. , Naum. 113, 1, 2? Lox. rosea. 

 Pall. Naum. 113, 3; Fr. purpurea, Wils. I, vii, 4 ? 



(5) Ko?.otci;, the Greek name of a small species of Crow. 



