viii PREFACE. 



An adult bird had the neck, back, wing-coverts and 

 tail reddish liver brown ; the head, both above and below, 

 rather lighter in colour, the feathers of the upper part 

 of the head and neck lanceolate ; the primaries almost 

 black ; under surface of the body very little lighter in 

 colour than the back ; all the feathers white at the base ; 

 legs, toes, and claws as in the young bird. 



The whole length twenty-seven and a half inches ; the 

 wing, from the anterior joint, twenty-three and a half 

 inches; the fourth and fifth quill-feathers nearly equal 

 in length, but the fifth rather the longest in the wing. 

 The wings when closed reach to the end of the tail. 



Willughby, in his Ornithology, has accurately described 

 this species at page 63, under the name of the Morpkno 

 congener of Aldrovaudus ; and adds, that u this bird took 

 the name of MorpJinos from the spots of the feathers, 

 whence also it may in Latine not unfitly be called 



The young bird is the Falco namus and maculatus of 

 Gmelin. 



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The WHITE- WINGED CROSSBILL. Loxia leucoptera ; vol. 

 ii. page 28. 



At the evening meeting of the Zoological Society on 

 Tuesday, Sept. 23rd, 1835, Edward Fitton Esq., exhi- 

 bited a fine male of this species in its red plumage, which 

 he had picked up dead upon the shore at Exmouth on 

 the 17th inst. The bird appeared to have been injured 

 on the back of the head, and had crept into a hole in one 



