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108, but without bestowing upon it, at that time, any 

 systematic name. It was afterwards called L. falcirostra. 

 The specimens were received from North America, and 

 the bird had been named by Gmelin L. leucoptera ; these 

 terms, therefore, apply to the American White-winged 

 Crossbill, which having been taken in England, will be 

 included in this History of British Birds, next after the 

 present species, the European White-winged Crossbill, L. 

 bifasciata of Nilsson. 



This species has occurred in considerable numbers in 

 some parts of Europe, and is believed by a German Natu- 

 ralist to be found also in Asia. It was not included by 

 M. Temminck in the second edition of his Manual of the 

 Birds of Europe, published in 1820, but has been admitted 

 in the supplement to the Land Birds of that work (1835), 

 page 243, as the L. leucoptera of Gmelin ; but the 

 description accords with the bifasciata of Nilsson. M. 

 Temminck states that several have been captured in the 

 north of Germany, and that it has been killed at Nurem- 

 berg. It is included by M. Brehm in his work on the 

 Birds of Germany, under the term Crucirostra bifasciata ; 

 and it has also been noticed by M. Constantin Gloger, in 

 the Isis, 1828, as Crucirostra tcenioptera, who says, that, 

 besides single specimens which have been occasionally 

 met with in Sweden and various parts of Germany, it 

 occurred in considerable numbers in Silesia and Thuringia 

 in the autumn of 1826. M. Gloger, in his remarks on 

 the appearance of this species, states his reasons for be- 

 lieving that its migration took place from Asia. I may 

 here add, that a single skin in the collection of Mr. Gould, 

 received from the Himalaya, a male bird, belongs to the 

 L. bifasciata of Nilsson, and agrees with various examples 

 taken in this country, to be hereafter noticed. 



The localities in which this species has appeared in 



