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SPAKROWS AND FINCHES. 



ing to food supply. Flight, stench', swift 



and undulating; gregarious. Song, a low, 



sweet warble; call loud and clear, also gives 



a murmuring chatter when feeding. Very 



unsus])icious. 



Fio-. mo 



EveniujT Grosbeak. 1-4. 



476. WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 



Differs from last in being more slender, 

 bill not as stout; crimson; wings and tail, 

 black, the former with a conspicuous patch 

 of white, fig. 329. Female and young male, 

 iiimp yellow : wing-patch as in male. Breeds 

 in coniferous forests of northern N. A. from 



