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XXIIl. GROSBEAK. Gen. Birds, XLV. 



Le Bee croife, Ds Buffon, iii. 449 — ?l. Enl. 218. — Br. Zoal. i. N° 115. 208. Crossbill. 



Loxia curviroftra. Korffiiaf. Kiagelrifvare, Faun. Suec. N" zzi^.—Laiham, ii. I06. 

 — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



IR. With each of the mandibles crooked, and crolUng each 

 other at the tips-, wings, head, neck, and body, of a full 

 red: v/ings and tail duflcy : the coverts crofled with two white 

 lines. 



The Female is of a dirty green : rump of a deep yellow : the 

 colors of each fex vary wonderfully ; there being fcarcely two which 

 agree in the degree of fliades of red or green : but the bills are 

 -fufficient diftinifliona from all other birds. 



Inhabits the northern latitudes of North America, from Undjoris Place. 



Bay X.O Newfoundland. Mr. Edwards mentions one taken off Green- 

 land; but that indrvidual muft have been driven there by a florm, 

 Unce it could never have fubfifted in that woodlefs regionj its food 

 being the kernels of pine-cones, apples, and berries. 



Thefe birds arrive at Severn river in Hudfon's Bay, the latter end 

 of May ; but fo greatly affed a cold climate, as to proceed even 

 rnore northward to breed. They return in autumn at the firft fetting- 

 in of the froft. Their habitations are the forefts of pines. 



They are found in all the evergreen forefts of Ruffia and Sibiria.. 

 In Scandinavia, as high as Drontheim-. In England they only appear 

 in certain years. I do not find that ,they migrate i-n any part ex- 

 cept in America. 



The American fpecies varies from the European in being much- 

 lefs ; and in the two white lines acrofs the wings. 



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