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Bird - Lore 



Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ridgw, Range: High mountains of Arizona 

 (San Francisco, Chirachavia, Santa Catalina, and Mogollon mountains), cen- 

 tral New Mexico, western Texas, and the higher mountains of Mexico to 

 Chancus, Guatemala. 



White-winged Crossbill {Loxia leucoptera, Figs. 4-6). The plumage 

 changes of this species are similar to those which the Red Crossbill undergoes. 

 The Juvenal plumage is similarly streaked, but there are pronounced buffy 

 wing-bars, which are replaced by white bars at the postjuvenal molt. This 

 brings the bird into the mottled plumage well shown by Figure 5, which is com- 

 parable with Figure 2, of the Red Crossbill. 



The range of the White-winged Crossbill is given in the A. 0. U. Check- 

 List as follows: 



Northern North America. Breeds in Boreal zones from the limit of tree in 

 northern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and northern Ungava, 

 south to southern British Columbia, southern Alberta, central Ontario, New 

 York (Adirondacks), New Hampshire (White Mountains) southern Maine, 

 and southern Nova Scotia; winters in much of its breeding-area and southward 

 irregularly to northern Oregon (Cascades), Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, south- 

 ern lUinois, southern Ohio, and North Carolina; more or less frequent in 

 Greenland, British Isles, and Heligoland. 



