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GENus LOXIA LINN US. 
Loxia Linnus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 171. Type, by subs. desig., 
Loxia curvirostra LINN=US (Gray, 1840). 
L6éxia curviréstra LINN.ZUS. 
Rance.— Europe, northern Asia, and northern North America, 
south in mountains (in North America south to Guatemala). 
a. [Loxia curvirostra curvirostra. Extralimital.] 
b. Loxia curvirostra minor (BreuHM). Crossbill. [521.] 
Crucirostra minor BreuM, Allg. deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung, I, 1846, 
532 (note). (Eastern United States.) 
Rance.— Northern North America. Breeds from central Alaska, northern 
Mackenzie, central Ungava, and Newfoundland south to California (Sierra 
Nevada and San Bernardino Mountains), southern Colorado, Michigan, and 
in the Alleghenies of northern Georgia (casually in Massachusetts, Maryland, 
and Virginia); winters irregularly south to southern California, New Mexico, 
northern Texas, Louisiana, and Florida; casual in Lower California, Guadalupe 
Island, and Bermuda. 
ce. Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ripaway. Mexican Crossbill. [521a.] 
Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ripaway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 
354. (Near City of Mexico, Mexico.) 
Raneg.— High mountains of Arizona (San Francisco, Chiricahua, Santa 
Catalina, and Mogollon mountains), central New Mexico, western Texas, and 
the higher mountains of Mexico to Chancus, Guatemala. 
Loxia leucéptera GMELIN. White-winged Crossbill. [522. 
Loxia leucoptera GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 844. (Hudson Bay and 
New York.) 
RanGE.— Northern North America. Breeds in Boreal zones from 
the limit of trees in northern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central 
Keewatin, and northern Ungava south to southern British Columbia, 
southern Alberta, central Ontario, New York (Adirondacks), New 
Hampshire (White Mountains) southern Maine, and southern Nova 
Scotia; winters in much of its breeding area and southward irregularly 
to northern Oregon (Cascades), Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, southern 
Illinois, southern Ohio, and North Carolina; more or less frequent in 
Greenland, British Isles, and Helgoland. 
