BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 53 



l^Curvirostra americana.] Yar.mexicana Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 129. 

 Loxia curvirostra . . . var. mexicana Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 143a. — Hen- 



SHAW, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 158 (Mt. Graham, s. 



Arizona); Zool. Exp. "W. 100th Merid., 1875, 248 (Mt. Graham, s. Arizona). 

 Loxia curvirostra, var. mexicana Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 488, part.— Hexshaw, Am. Sportsman, Feb. 20, 1875,328 



(pine region of Arizona). 

 ILoxia curvirostra, var. americana'] c. mexicana Coues, Birds X. W., 1874, 109, 

 " part (synonymy). 



Loxia curvirosircf, mexicana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



176; Nom. N.Am. B., 1881, no. 172a.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 



200.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Chib, vii, 1882, 193 (Chiricahua Mts., s. 



Arizona). 

 L. [oxial c. Ivxvirosira'] mexicana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1884, 350, part. 

 ILoxia crucirostral var. mexicana Dubois, Bull. Mus. Roy. Belg., Oct., 1882, 7 (syn.; 



geog. range) . 

 Curvirostra mexicana Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. X. H., i, 1869, 551 (alpine region 



of Vera Cruz, Mexico). 

 Loxia americana (not Curvirostra americana "Wilson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 



1864, 174 (Valley of Mexico). 

 [Loxia^ americana Sclater and Salvix, Xom. Av. Xeotr., 1873, 34. 

 Curvirostra americana Sumichrast Mem. Bost. Soc. X. H., i, 1869, 551 (alpine reg., 



Vera Cruz ) . 

 Loxia curvirostra stricklancli Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., viii, no. 23, Sept. 2, 



1885, 354 (substitute for name mexicana, preoccupied). — Americax Orxithol- 



OGisTs' Uxiox, Check List, 1886, no. 521a (part). — Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 



197 (Sta. Catalina Mts., s. Arizona).— Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 258 (Mogollon 



Mts., Arizona, breeding in pine belt). — Merriam, Xorth Am. Fauna, no. 3, 



1890, 40 (Grand Canyon of the Colorado), 95 (San Francisco Mt., in balsam 



belt).— Stoxe, Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 215 (Chalchicomula, Vera 



Cruz, 9,000 ft.) .— Chapmax, Bull. Am. Mus. X. H., x, 1898, 41 (Las Vigas, Vera 



Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 

 Loxia stricklancli Xelsox, Rep. Xat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 174, part (Arizona). 

 Loxia curvirostra (not of Linna?us) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 435, 



part. 



LOXIA LEUCOPTERA Gmelin. 

 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL, 



Wing's black or nearly so, marked with two conspicuous broad 

 bands of white across tips of middle and greater (sometimes also last 

 row of lesser) coverts; tertials also more or less marked at tips with 

 white, except in worn plumage; upper tail-coverts and tail black or 

 nearly so, with narrow paler edgings. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, median portion of back, rump, and most 

 of under parts red (usually pinkish red or light carmine, occasionall}' 

 more orange-red, rarely orange-yellowish); abdomen and flanks pale 

 grayish or dull white, the latter more or less streaked with dusky; 

 under tail-coverts black, broadly margined with white (sometimes 

 tinged with pink); scapulars black, this color extending across the 

 lower back; lores, part of orbital region, and spot at end of auricular 



