SUPPLEMENT, 



CONTAINING OMITTED SPECIES. 



LOXIA LEUCOPTERA. THE WHITE-WINGED 

 CROSSBILL. 



Loxia leucoptera. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 844. 



Loxia falcirostra. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 3/1. 



Bec-croise leucoptere. Loxia leucoptera. Temm. Man. d'Orii. IIL '243. 



Loxia leucoptera. White-winged Crossbill. Jen. Brit. Vert. An, 143. 



Length about six and a half inches ; mandibles extremely com- 

 pressed toward the end ; wings blacky with tico transverse white 

 bands. Male bright crimson above and beneath. Female dusky 

 tinged with yellow above, the rump wax-yellow, the loicer parts 

 yellowish-grey, longitudinally streaked with dusky. Young like 

 the female, but with less yelloio, 



Male. — This species, of which a very few individuals have 

 been procured in Britain, is distinguished from the rest by its 

 extremely compressed bill, and the two broad bands of white 

 on its wings, both characters being so remarkable that one of 



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