FAMILY Fringillide. 
White-winged A beautiful bird reminding one, perhaps, 
orossnm of the partly yellow Canary, with two dis- 
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L.6.r0 inches tinct white wing-bars and a very esthetic 
November 15 peach-blow pink breast, but with the same 
to May ist awkward twisted bill which distinguishes its 
foregoing relative. Another winter visitant erratic in time 
and season and less common than the other bird. Bradford 
Torrey mentions meeting him in the autumn (just previous 
to 1902) in Franconia, New Hampshire: ‘‘The common 
red ones were always here . . . and on more than one visit 
I had found the rarer and lovelier White-winged species. 
. .. I went into the woods along the path, and there, 
presently, I discovered a mixed flock of Crossbills—red 
ones and White-wings,—feeding so quietly that till now I 
had not suspected their presence.’”’? My own acquaintance 
with the White-wing was later, in 1906, ’08 in Cambridge 
and northern New Jersey; in both instances’ I obtained 
only fragmentary notations of chirps and twitterings which 
could be no index of the possibilities of the full song. The 
visitations of these birds in New York State were in 1848, 
64, ’74, ’78, ’82, ’88, ’90, ’93, ’96, ’97, 799 and 1906. The 
colors of the White-wing are, dull rose-red or pink, brighter 
on the head and rump, more or less barred with sepia black 
on the back, wings and tail sepia black, the former with 
two conspicuous white bars, the under parts nearly white. 
Nest of twigs, strips of bark, and mosses lined with softer 
materials and hair, usually built in the forking branch of a 
conifer, well up from the ground. Egg, pale greenish blue 
spotted near the larger end with umber brown and laven- 
der. The range of the species is similar to that of the Red 
Crossbill, it breeds more sparingly in the White and Adiron- 
dack Mountains than the latter. 
The nuptial song of the White-winged Crossbill is 
reported as far sweeter and more melodious than that of 
its more familiar relative,—a low, soft warble similar to the 
song of the Redpoll, a series of clearly whistled notes like 
those in the song of a strong-voiced Canary. My records 
which follow are scarcely that kind of singing, but they 
are the characteristic call notes which I caught in the 
Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge, and in the open 
country of northern New Jersey. 
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