332 INSESSORES. LOXIA. Crossbill. 



ried by smoke-grey ; with the rump deep primrose-yel- 

 low, and the under parts more or less streaked with 

 blackish-grey. 



PARROT-CROSSBILL. 



LoxiA Pytiopsittacus, Bechst. 



PLATE LIII«». Fig. 1. 



Loxia Pj^tiopsittacus, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 3. p. 106. 



Bee croise perroquet, ou des Sapins, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 325. 



Loxia curvirostra major, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 843. sp. 1. var. 2. — Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. v. 1. 371. sp. 1. var. y. 

 Crucirostra pinetorum, Meyer, Vog. Liv. und. Esthl. p. 71. 

 Kiefern Kreuzschnabel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 20. t. 32. f. 2. & 3. 

 Grosschnabliger Kernbeiser, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 137. Id. 



Vog. Deut. V. 1. 1. f. 1. old male. 



The probability suggested, in the history of the Common 

 Crossbill, that another species might be entitled to a place in 

 the British Fauna, has been now placed beyond doubt ; and, 

 through the kindness of a scientific friend, Sir William 

 Jardine of Jardine Hall, in Dumfriesshire, I am enabled 

 to give a figure of the species in question, which will exhibit, 

 better than any description, the characteristic difference be- 

 tween it and the common one. This specimen was procured 

 by Sir William from Mr D. Ross, gunmaker in Edinburgh 

 (a person well acquainted with most of the feathered inhabi- 

 tants of our islands, and one of the best preservers of animals 

 in the kingdom), to whom it had been sent from Ross-shire, 

 along with several others ; but he cannot now say whether 

 they were all of the same species. 



Another very mutilated specimen of this bird is in the 

 Edinburgh Museum. 

 Occasional ^^ '^^^ manners it resembles the other species of this singu- 

 visitant. \q^ genus, and, like them, inhabits the pine forests of the Arc- 

 tic Regions. According to Temminck, it visits Poland, Prus- 



