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AMERICAN WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 



Loxia hucoptera, GMELTN. BUONAPARTE. 



" fatcirostra, PENNANT. FLEMING? 



Loxia. Loxos Curved oblique. Leucoptera. Leucos White. 



Pteron A wing. 



THIS and the following species were first distinguished by 

 M. De Selys Longchamps. 



The one before us is native of the whole of the northern parts 

 of North America, where it inhabits the extensive pine forests. 

 It is found also in northern Europe, a few being occasionally 

 seen in Sweden, and also in Germany; and occurred in Silesia 

 and Thuringia in considerable numbers in the autumn of 1826. 



A White-winged Crossbill, a female bird, was shot near 

 Northampton in the winter of the year 1848. It was kept 

 alive for four months. Of this Mr. William Felkin, Jun., 

 of Carrinoton, near Nottingham, has obligingly informed me. 

 One in Mr. Yarrell's collection was picked up dead on the 

 sea-shore at Exmouth, on the 17th. of September, 1845, by 

 E. B. Fitton, Esq.; and another, in that of Hugh Edwin 

 Strickland, Esq., was shot near Worcester, in 1836, being in 

 company at the time with the Common Crossbill; another 

 was shot by Mr. Seaman, near Ipswich, Suffolk. One, a female, 

 in the garden of Robert J. Bell, Esq., of Mickleover House, 

 Derby ; it was in company with a flock of Fieldfares ; one, 

 out of a flock of four or five, on some fir trees near Thetford, 

 Norfolk, on the 10th. of May, 1846; several near Walton 

 House, Carlisle, Cumberland, in the same year; and nine 

 others, five males and four females, by Mr. Thomas Bond, 

 of Swinstead House, near Brampton, also in that county. 

 One was shot out of a small flock which were feeding on 

 fir cones, at Drinkstone, in Suffolk; and one at Larigan, near 

 Penzance, Cornwall. 



