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parts of Europe, and is believed by a German naturalist to 

 belong also to Northern Asia. The first systematic name, 

 that of leucoptera, was given by Gmelin. 



This species was not included by jSI. Temminck in the 

 second edition of his Manual of the Birds of Europe, pub- 

 lished in ] 820, but has been admitted in the Supplement to 

 the Land Birds of that work, and it is there stated that 

 several have been captured in the north of Germany, and 

 that it has been killed at Nuremberg. It is included by 

 M. Brchm in his work on the birds of Germany, under the 

 term Crucirostra hifasdala ; and it has also been noticed by 

 M. Constantin Gloger, who says, that besides single speci- 

 mens which have been occasionally met with in Sweden, and 

 various parts of Germany, it occurred in considerable num- 

 bers in Silesia and Thuringia in the autumn of 1826. M. 

 Gloger, in his remarks on the appearance of this species, 

 states his reasons for believing that its migration took place 

 from Asia ; but he admits that his bird, though named by 

 him tantoptera, Avas identical with the North American 

 L. leucoptera. 



The localities in which this species has appeared in Eu- 

 rope have been thus primarily noticed, to show the probability 

 of its occurrence in this country, and accordingly it appears 

 that a female was shot within two miles of Belfast in January 

 1802. Of this a notice was sent to the Linnean Society, and 

 it is recorded. Pennant also mentions in his British Zoo- 

 logy, that he had been told of a second, killed in Scotland. 

 H. E. Strickland, Esq. of Cracombe House, Evesham, in a 

 letter with which he has favoured me, mentions that he pos- 

 sesses a specimen of the White-winged Crossbill, killed near 

 Worcester in 1836 ; and Mr. Hoy informs me that some 

 years ago Mr. Seaman, of Ipswich, who is well acquainted 

 with birds, being out with his gun, looking for specimens, 

 saw five or six small birds on a tree, which from their pecu- 



