142 AVES INSESSORES. [LoxiA. 



L. curvirostra, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 328. Common Cross- 

 Bill, Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 329. pi. 53. Cross-Bill, Mont. Orn. 

 Diet. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 153. 



DIMENS. Entire length six inches four lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male.) General colour of the plumage cinereous, 

 deeply tinged with greenish yellow : rump yellow : lower part of the 

 abdomen ash-gray with dusky spots : quills and tail-feathers dusky, with 

 greenish edges; great and middle wing-coverts edged with yellowish 

 white : bill yellowish brown : irides and feet brown. (Male after the 

 first moult.) All the upper and under parts brick-red, tinged with yel- 

 lowish gray : quills and tail-feathers dusky, edged with yellowish green : 

 under tail-coverts white, spotted with dusky. (Female, and young of 

 the year.) Brownish gray, more or less tinged with greenish: rump 

 yellow: under parts whitish, with longitudinal dusky streaks. (Egg.) 

 Pale bluish white, speckled with red-brown: long. diam. ten lines and 

 a half; trans, diam. eight lines. 



An occasional visitant in this country, at irregular intervals. Gene- 

 rally observed during the summer and autumnal months, in larger or 

 smaller flocks. Breeds in the northern parts of Europe during the 

 Winter, or very early in the Spring. According to Sheppard has been 

 known to breed in Suffolk in one or two instances. Nest placed in the 

 forked branches of pines, composed of moss and lichens, and lined with 

 feathers. Eggs four or five in number. Food principally the seeds of 

 the pine and other firs. 



105. L. Pytiopsittacus, Bechst. (Parrot Cross-Bill.) 

 Bill shorter than the middle toe, very strong and broad 

 at the base, much hooked ; the crossing point of the lower 

 mandible not reaching so high as the ridge of the upper. 



L. Pytiopsittacus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 325. Parrot Cross- 

 Bill, Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 332. pi. 53**. f. 1. Bew. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. i. p. 157. 



DIMENS. Entire length seven inches. TEMM. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male.) All the upper and under parts of the body 

 olive-ash : cheeks, throat, and sides of the neck, cinereous : head spotted 

 with brown : rump greenish yellow ; breast and belly the same, tinged 

 with gray; sides streaked with dusky: quills and tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, edged with olive-ash: bill dusky horn-colour: irides, and feet, 

 brown. (Male after the first moult.) Upper and under parts bright red : 

 wings and tail blackish brown ; the quills edged with reddish. (Female.) 

 " Upper parts greenish ash, with large spots of cinereous brown : throat 

 and neck grayish, tinged with brown ; rest of the under parts cinereous, 

 slightly tinged with greenish yellow : rump yellowish : abdomen whitish ; 

 under tail-coverts spotted with brown/ 1 TEMM. The young of the 

 year very much resemble the female. (Egg.) Similar to that of the 

 last species. 



This species, which inhabits the northern parts of Europe and Ame- 

 rica, has been occasionally met with in this country, but is much more 

 rare than the last. Habits similar. Breeds, according to Temminck, in 

 some climates, during the Winter ; in others, in May. Eggs four or live 

 in number. 



