'224 REPOET OF XEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



522 Loxia leucoptera Gmelin. 

 White- winged Crossbill. 



Adult male. — Length, 6-6.50. Wing, 3.50. General plumage bright pinkish- 

 red ; center of abdomen and crissum, gray, the latter bordered with whitish ; 

 wings, scapulars and tail, black ; two broad white wing bars and white tips to 

 the inner tertials ; a black spot behind the eye and another on the side of the 

 neck. 



Adult female. — General plumage grayish, broadly streaked with blackish ; 

 rump, bright yellow ; wings as in the male. 



Young male in first wintei'. — Body mainly chrome-yellow with little red. 



Rare and irregular winter visitant. 



This Crossbill is much rarer than the last and visits us only occa- 

 sionally. Audubon, writing at Camden, in the first week of ISTovember, 

 1827, says : "They are so abundant that I am able to shoot, every day, 

 great numbers out of the flocks that are continually alighting in a 

 copse of Jersey scrub pine, opposite my window. 



Cassin states that they were present in the winter of 1836-7, and 

 were not seen again until 1854-5, when they were unusually plentiful 

 among the pines about Camden, and so tame that they could be killed 

 with stones.^ 



Mr. S. N. Rhoads saw a small flock at Haddonfield in the winter of 

 1896-7, and from December 10th, 1899, to March 20th, 1900, they 

 were present at Princeton,' and were seen the same year in the Orange 

 Mountains (Babson), and at Englewood February 21st — March.^ Mr. 

 C. H. Rogers records four at Leonia, December 25th, 1906.* 



A single bird that had been caught by a cat at Cape May, February 

 5th, 1909, was presented to me by Mr. H. Walker Hand. 



528 Acanthis linaria (Linnaeus). 

 Redpoll. 



Adult male. — Length. 4.50-5. Wing. 2.80-3. Above, grayish-brown, streaked 

 with dusky, and somewhat mottled with white ; lighter on the rump, which is 

 tinged with pink ; crown, bright crimson ; wings and tail, dusky, with two 



' Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., VII., p. 203. 

 ^ Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 61. 

 ' Chapman, Bird Lore, ItKK), p. 59. 

 * Bird Lore, 1907, Christmas Lists. 



