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third species has occurred in considerable numbers in some 

 parts of Europe, and is believed by a German naturalist 

 to belong also to Northern Asia. The first systematic 

 name, that of leucoptera, was given by Gmelin. 



This species was not included by M. Temminck in the 

 second edition of his Manual of the Birds of Europe, pub- 

 lished in 1820, but has been admitted in the Supplement to 

 the Land Birds of that work, and it is there stated that 

 several have been captured in the north of Germany, and 

 that it has been killed at Nuremberg. It is included by 

 M. Brehm in his work on the birds of Germany, under the 

 term Crucirostra Mfasciata ; and it has also been noticed 

 by M. Constantin Gloger, who says, that besides single 

 specimens which have been occasionally met with in Swe- 

 den, and various parts of Germany, it occurred in consi- 

 derable numbers in Silesia and Thuringia in the autumn 

 of 1826. M. Gloger, in his remarks on the appearance 

 of this species, states his reasons for believing that its mi- 

 gration took place from Asia ; but he admits that his bird, 

 though named by him tamopttra> was identical with the 

 North American L. leucoptera. 



The localities in which this species has appeared in Eu- 

 rope have been thus primarily noticed, to show the proba- 

 bility of its occurrence in this country, and accordingly it 

 appears that a female was shot within two miles of Belfast 

 in January 1802. Of this a notice was sent to the Lin- 

 nean Society, and it is recorded. Pennant also mentions 

 in his British Zoology, that he had been told of a second, 

 killed in Scotland. H. E. Strickland, Esq. of Cracombe 

 House, Evesham, in a letter with which he has favoured 

 me, mentions that he possesses a specimen of the White- 

 winged Crossbill, killed near Worcester in 1836 ; and Mr. 

 Hoy informs me that some years ago Mr. Seaman, of 



