BIRDS, PASSERES, 18, Loxia. 37 



Crofs-bill. Br. Zool. t, 49, Lewin t, 67, Donouant,^g, 



Length 7 inches : extent 13 inches : weight near 2 ounces. 

 Bill dusky, the mandibles hooked and crossing each other : iris 

 dusky : head and neck variable red orange and yellowish : bach and 

 wing-coverts more or lefs olive-green, with dusky marks 5 rump 

 orange: vent \\-hitish: under tail-coverts with dusky fpots j legs 

 dusky : claws black. 



Female dull olive-green where the male is" red ; wings and tail 

 dull brown : belly palish-green. 



71. L. falcirostra. Mandibles crossing each other i body 

 crimson, with a whitish mixture : wiugs hlack, with 

 2 white bands; the secondary feathers tipt with white: 

 tail black. 



White-winged Crossbill. Dixon Voy. t*p. 356. 



Shot near Belfast, in Jan. 1802. Linn. Trans. -]., 309, 



Length 5 inches 3 quarters : size of a goldfinch. 



Bill dusky, with a ftreak of brown from the bafe to the eye: plumage 

 vvhite, with broad crimfon margins, having the appearance of aa 

 undulate mixture of both colours : rump pale crimfon ; vent dirty 

 white : wings with an oblique white band from the shoulders, and 

 a fecond short one below : fecondary quill-feathers tipt with white : 

 legs brown, female brown above, beneath and vent yellowish : 

 chin pale. 



72. L. Coccothraustes. Chesnut brown, beneath purplish- 

 grey : chin black : wings with a white stripe : the 

 middle-feathers rhombic at the points : tail-feathers 

 black at the base on the thinner side. 



Haw finch. Lewin iii. t. 66. Donovan t, 43. Walcot t, 206. 



Length 7 inches ; extent 13 : weight near 2 ounces, 

 i??7/very ftrong and thick, pale dull pink : iris grey : orbits black j 

 sides and back of the neck grey : rump pale chefnut : middle quill- 

 feathers truncate, angular, curled at the edges, dark blue : greater- 

 ones black, marked with white on the inner-webs : lesser wing* 

 coverts white : tail short, black, tipt with White on the innerwebs j 

 legs red-brown : elaws black. 



73. L. Enucleator, Crimson, with black spots on the back 

 and shoulders: belly and vent cinereous : wings 

 black, with 2 white stripes ; tail blackish, with a 

 whitish margin. 



Pine Grosbeak. Br. Zool. t. 49. Lewin t. 68. Donov.t.i?, 



Length above 7 inches : weight more than 2 ounces, 

 Bill dusky : iris hazel : head, neck, breaft and rump crimfon j fea* 

 thcrs of the back and lesser wing-coverts black with a reddish 

 border: quills dusky, with a dirty-white outer edge: tail 9. little 

 forked i legs short, dusky, female greenish-brown, with, here and 

 there a reddish or yellowish tinge. 



74. L. chloris. Yellowish-green i outer quill-feathers 

 bright yellow on the outer-webs; tail dusky, the 

 x>uter-featherg yellow on the outer-webs, 



Green finch, Lewin t. 70. Albin i. t. 58. Walcot t, d8, 



Bill pale horn-colour i iris hazel j sides of the ntct inclining to 

 grey : belly greenish-white : wing.coverts grey rump yeUovish r 

 legs flesh-colour, female dusky-green, 



75. L. Pyrrhula, Crown, front and chin, wings and tail 

 black : neck and back grey ; wing-coverts with a 

 white line : rump and vent white ; breast and belly 

 x>f the male red, of the female rusty-brown. 



