THE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 293 
CURVIROSTRA LEUCOPTERA.— Wilson. 
The White-winged Crossbill. 
Lozxia leucoptera, Audubon. Orn. Biog., IV. (1838) 467. 
Curvirostra lewcoptera, Wilson. Am. Orn., IV. (1811) 48. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Bill greatly compressed, and acute towards the point; male carmine-red, tinged 
with dusky across the back; the sides of body under the wings streaked with 
brown; from the middle of belly to the tail coverts whitish, the latter streaked 
with brown; scapulars, wings, and tail, black; the broad bands on the wings 
across the ends of greater and median coverts; white spots on the end of the inner 
tertiaries. 
Female brownish, tinged with olive-green in places; feathers of the back and 
crown with dusky centres; rump bright brownish-yellow. 
Length, about six and twenty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, three and fifty 
one-hundredths inches; tail, two and sixty one-hundredths inches. 
This beautiful bird seems to 
be much less frequent in its 
winter visits to New England 
than the preceding. It has all 
the general characteristics of 
that bird. In May, in the Hud- 
son’s Bay country, according 
to Mr. Hutchins, it builds its 
nest in a pine-tree. This is 
constructed of grass, mud, and 
feathers, and is lined with moss 
and other soft materials. The 
female lays five white eggs, 
marked with yellowish spots. 
JEGIOTHUS, Casanis. 
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AZ giothus, CABANIS, Mus. Hein., 1851, 161. (Type Fringéila linaria, Linn.) 
Bill very short, conical, and acutely pointed, the outlines even concave; the 
commissure straight; the base of the upper mandible and the nostrils concealed by 
stiff, appressed bristly feathers; middle of the mandible having several ridges 
yarallel with the culmen; inner lateral toe rather the longer, its claw reaching the 
middle of the middle claw; the hind toe rather longer, its claw longer than the digi- 
tal portion; wings very long, reaching the middle of the tail; second quill a little 
longer than the first and third; tail deeply forked. 
