SPECIES 2. C UR VIROSTRA LE UCOP TERA. 

 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 



[Plate XXXI. Fig. 3.] 

 TURTON, Syst. i, p. 515.* 



THIS is a much rarer species than the preceding; though found 

 frequenting the same places, and at the same seasons; differing, 

 however, from the former in the deep black wings and tail, the 

 large bed of white on the wing, the dark crimson of the plu- 

 mage; and a less and more slender conformation of body. The 

 bird represented in the plate was shot in the neighbourhood of 

 the Great Pine swamp, in the month of September, by my friend 

 Mr. Ainsley, a German naturalist, collector in this country for 

 the Emperor of Austria. The individual of this species men- 

 tioned by Turton and Latham, had evidently been shot in 

 moulting time. The present specimen was a male in full and per- 

 fect plumage, t 



The White-winged Crossbill is five inches and a quarter long, 

 and eight inches and a quarter in extent; wings and tail deep 

 black, the former crossed with two broad bars of white; general 

 colour of the plumage dark crimson, partially spotted with dusky; 

 lores and frontlet pale brown; vent white, streaked with black; 

 bill a brown horn colour, the mandibles crossing each other 

 as in the preceding species, the lower sometimes bending to 

 the right, sometimes to the left, usually to the left in the male, 

 and to the right in the female of the American Crossbill. The 



* We add the following synonymes. Loxia leucoptera, GMEL. Syst. i, ;. 844. 

 Loxia falcirostra, LATH. Ind. Orn. i, p. 371. White-winged Cross-bill, LATH. 

 Syn. in, p. 108. 2. Id. Sup. p. 148. Jrct. Zool 11, No. 208. 



fThis is a mistake: it was a young 1 male. 

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