FRINGILLID./E. 



1NSESSORES. 



CONIROSTRES. 



FRINGILLIDM. 



THE PARROT CROSSBILL. 



Loxia pityopsittacus. 



Loscia pityopsittacus, Parrot Crossbill, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 160. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 76. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 332. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 1 42. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vi. 



Bec-croise perroquet, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 325. 



THE first notice of the appearance of this bird in this 

 country that I am acquainted with, occurs in Pennant's 

 British Zoology, at the commencement of his account of the 

 Common Crossbill, where the following statement will be 

 found : " We received a male and female of the large 

 variety out of Shropshire : the bill was remarkably thick 

 and short, more incurvated than that of the common bird, 



