Species II. CURTIROSTRA LEVCOPTERA. 



WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 



[Plate XXXI. Fig. 3.] 

 TURTON, Sijst. I., p. 515.* 



This is a much rarer species than the preceding ; though found 

 frequenting the same places, and at the same seasons ; differing, however, 

 from the former in the deep bhick wings and tail, the large bed of white 

 on the wing, the dark crimson of the plumage, and a less and more slen- 

 der conformation of body. The bird represented in the plate was shot 

 in the neighborhood of the Great Pine Swamp, in the month of Septem- 

 ber, by my friend Mr. Ainsley, a German naturalist, collector in this 

 country for the Emperor of Austria. The individual of this species 

 mentioned by Turton and Latham, had evidently been shot in moulting 

 time. The present specimen was a male in full and perfect plumage.f 



The White-winged Crossbill is five inches and a quarter long, and 

 eight inches and a quarter in extent ; wings and tail deep black, the 

 former crossed with two broad bars of white ; general color of the plum- 

 age dark crimson, partially spotted with dusky ; lores and frontlet pale 

 brown ; vent white, streaked with black ; bill a brown horn color, the 

 mandibles crossing each other as in the preceding species, the lower 

 sometimes bending to the right, sometimes to the left, usually to the 

 left in the male, and to the right in the female of the American Cross- 

 bill. The female of the present species will be introduced as soon as a 

 good specimen can be obtained, with such additional facts relative to 

 their manners as may then be ascertained. 



* We add the following eynonymes: — Loxia leucoptera, Gmel. Sijst. I., p. 844. — 

 Zoxia falcirostra, Lath. Ind. Orn. i., p. 371. — White-winged Cross-bill, Lath. Syn, 

 HI., p. 108, 2. Id. Sup. p. 148. Arct. Zool. u., No. 208. 



t This is a mistake ; it was a young male. 



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