TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 211 



PA SSERES. FRING1 L L I DsE. 



Loxia bifasciata (C. L. Brehm.*) 



THE TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 



Loxia bifasciata. 



This white- winged Crossbill was described as a new 

 species, in the year 1827, almost simultaneously by the 

 eldest Brehm and by Gloger I, to the former of whom the 

 priority of publication seems to belong ; but ornithologists 

 were slow to believe iii its distinctness from the American 

 form which bad, as will presently be perceived, been long 

 before known, and the differences between the two were for 

 many years slighted or ignored, until the investigations of 

 Professor Nilsson and Baron de Selys-Longchamps set the 

 matter at rest. Brehm, however, to the last maintained that 



* Crucirostra bifasciata, C. L. Brehm, Ornis, iii. p. s ."> (1827). 

 \ Loxia tamioptera, Gloger, Ims, 1827, p. 411. 



