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TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 



Loxia tcenioptera, GLOGEK. 



" bifasciata, NILLSON. 



Crucirostra bifasciata, BREHM. 



Loxia leucoptera, JBNYNS. GOULD. YARRELL. 



Loxia. Loxos Oblique curved. Tcenioplera. Tainia A band. 

 Pteron A wing. 



To Mrs. H. E. Strickland, I am indebted for the coloured 

 drawing from which the plate is taken; a 'Happy Illustration' 

 of what might be expected from the daughter of so eminent 

 a naturalist as Sir William Jardine, and the wife of such 

 another as my friend Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq. 



The original plate is in Buonoparte's monograph of the 

 Crossbills. 



I describe this species as a British bird, as well as the 

 one preceding it, because so many specimens of White-winged 

 Crossbills have of late years occurred in the country, that it 

 seems hardly possible to doubt but that some of them must 

 belong to the one before us, an European species; two 

 individuals of the number only, as far as I am aware, having 

 been positively identified with the other, which is an American 

 one; Buonaparte and Schlegel also indeed, though I know 

 not on what authority, give Britain as one of the countries 

 to which it occasionally migrates. 



One was shot at Grenville, near Belfast, in Ireland, January 

 llth., 1802. 



Many examples of this species have occurred on the con- 

 tinent of Europe; its proper habitat being the cold districts 

 of Siberia and Northern Asia, from whence it wanders occa- 

 sionally into the more temperate regions of Russia, Sweden, 

 Germany, Holland, and Belgium. In this our continent, 

 therefore, it is necessarily only considered as an occasional 



