414 



FRINGILLlDvE. 



Loxia atrata, Bomeyer, J.f. 0. 1879, p. 179; Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat, 

 Mus. iii. p. 234 (1830). ' 



Adult male. General colour above rosy pink, paler on the rump, 

 the scapulars and a bar across the lower back black ; lesser wing- 

 coverts black, washed with pink ; median and greater coverts black, 

 tipped with white, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, pri- 

 mary-coverts, and quills black, with a spot of white at the end of 

 the innermost secondaries ; upper tail-coverts black, with a small 

 spot of rosy white at the ends ; tail-feathers black, narrowly fringed 

 with brown externally and with white internally ; crown of head 

 and hind neck a little more crimson than the back ; lores dusky ; 

 nasal plumes ashy fulvous ; feathers round eye, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and cheeks, as well as the throat and breast, bright rosy, 

 inclining to crimson, with a black mark behind the ear-coverts ; 

 abdomen ashy grey ; sides of body crimson like the breast ; flanks 

 ashy grey, broadly streaked with blackish ; thighs ashy grey ; under 

 tail-coverts white, with black bases, and slightly tinged with rosy ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy grey, slightly tinged with 

 rosy; quills below dusky, ashy grey along the inner edge: "bill 

 brownish black ; legs and feet brown, claws black ; iris dark brown" 

 (B. R. Moss). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3 - 55, tail 

 2-35, tarsus 06. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being olive-yellowish 

 where the latter is red ; rump pale yellow ; head and back more or 

 less mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; hinder surface of 

 body ashy, washed with yellow on the throat, breast, and sides of 

 body, the latter striped with dusky blackish. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0*65, wing 3*3, tail 2*25, tarsus 055. 



The only difference of any moment that I have been able to find 

 between the European and American White-winged Crossbills has 

 been in the darker scapulars of the latter ; but the series of European 

 males examined by me has been too small to allow me to state 

 whether this character is always well defined. 



Bab. North America from Alaska to Labrador, wandering south 

 in winter. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Alaska. Purchased. 



b. J ad. sk. Fort Yukon, Alaska, April 7, U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



1877 (L. M. Turnei- ; Sm. 

 no. 78281). 



c. (1. c? ; e. 2 ad- sk. Fort Simpson. B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 

 /. <S ad. st. Arctic America. Sir G. B:ick [C.J. 

 g,h. S 2 ad. sk. Repulse Bay. Dr. Rae [P.]. 



*j &• d 2 a< i- s k- Nova Scotia (Doivnes). Sclater Coll. 



I, m. cJ 2 ad. sk. New Brunswick. Hume Coll. 



n. cJad.sk. Utica, New York ( J. Davis ; Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sm. no. 77086). 

 o. 2 ad. sk. Garrisons, New York, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1875 (Roosevelt ; Sm. no. 



86891 ). 

 p. 2 ad. sk. Philadelphia (J. Krider; Sm. U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.J. 



no. 77069). 

 q,r,s. cJ ; AJad.sk. North America, Gould Coll. 



u. cJad.sk. North America. Hume Coll. 



