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FKINGILLID.E. 



INSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTKES. 



FRINGILLID.E. 





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THE PARROT CROSSBILL. 



Loxia pityopsittacus, Parrot Crossbill, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 160. 



,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 76. 



,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 332. 



,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 142. 



,, ,, „ Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. vi. 



,, Bec-cro\s6 perroquet, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 325. 



The first notice of the appearance of this bird in this 

 country that I am acquainted Avith, occurs in Pennant''s Bri- 

 tish Zoology, at the commencement of his account of the Com- 

 mon Crossbill, where the following statement will be found : 

 — " We received a male and female of the large variety out 

 of Shropshire : the bill was remarkably thick and short, more 

 incurvated than that of the common bird, and the ends more 

 blunt." This bird was considered only as a variety of the 



