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Ipswich, who is well acquainted with birds, being out 

 with his gun, looking for specimens, saw five or six small 

 birds on a tree, which from their peculiar manners at- 

 tracted his attention; he fired, and killed one, which 

 proved to be a White-winged Crossbill ; but the more 

 fortunate survivors did not allow him an opportunity of 

 repeating the experiment. 



Professor Nilsson, in his Scandinavian Fauna, says, 

 writing from Lund, " Not more than two specimens of this 

 pretty little Crossbill have been taken with us ; but it 

 appears that they are not unfrequently seen in central 

 Sweden among the Crossbills which arrive in the months 

 of October and November. Its manners are like those of 

 the other Crossbills, but it has a different call-note, and a 

 different song." 



Since the publication of the first edition of this work, 

 several records of the occurrence of the White-winged 

 Crossbill have appeared in the Zoologist. One example 

 is mentioned by Mr. Jerdon, as having been taken in Rox- 

 burghshire, in the month of March of the present year. 

 Mr. J. Cooper of Birmingham had one alive, which was 

 caught in that district ; E. H. Rodd, Esq. of Penzance, 

 has recorded one that was killed at Lariggan in Cornwall, 

 and the Rev. C. A. Bury has mentioned on the authority 

 of Mr. Butler, that a pair of these birds had been taken in 

 the Isle of Wight. 



This species appears to be more numerous in North 

 America than in any other part ; and to the publications 

 of Ornithologists in that country I must refer for the par- 

 ticulars of the habits of this bird, which are not to be 

 observed here. 



" This species," says Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Prince 

 of Musignano, in the second volume of his Ornithology of 



