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liar manners attracted his attention ; he fired, and killed one, 

 which proved to be a AVhite-winged Crossbill; but the more 

 fortunate survivors did not allow him an opportunity of re- 

 peating the experiment. 



Professor Nilsson, in his Scandinavian Fauna, says, writ- 

 ing from Lund, " Not more than two specimens of this 

 pretty little Crossbill have been taken with us ; but it appears 

 that they are not unfrequently seen in central Sweden among 

 the Crossbills which arrive in the months of October and 

 November. Its manners are like those of the other Cross- 

 bills, but it has a different call-note, and a different song."*' 



This species appears to be more numerous in North Ame- 

 rica than in any other part ; and to the publications of Or- 

 nithologists in that country I must refer for the particulars 

 of the habits of this bird, which are not to observed here. 



" This species," says Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Prince of 

 Musignano, in the second volume of his Ornithology of Ame- 

 rica, in continuation of Wilson, page 88, " inhabits during 

 summer the remotest regions of North America, and it is 

 therefore extraordinary that it should not have been found in 

 the analogous climates of the old continent,* In this, its 

 range is widely extended, as we can trace it from Labrador, 

 westward to Fort de la Fourche, in latitude 56°, the borders 

 of Peace River, and Montagu Island on the North West 

 coast, where it was found by Dixon. Round Hudson's Bay 

 it is common, and well known, probably extending far to the 

 north west, as Mackensie appears to allude to it when speak- 

 ing of the only land bird found in the desolate regions he 

 was exploring, which enlivened with its agreeable notes the 

 deep and silent forests of those frozen tracts. It is common 



* C. L. Bonaparte was not then aware of the memoir of JM. C. Gloger, which 

 appeared in the fourteenth volume of the Nova Acta, published at Bonne in 

 1828, the same year in which the second volume of the Ornithology was pub- 

 lished in Philadelphia. 



