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WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
Lox1é LEUCOPTERA, GMEL. 
PLATE CCCLXIV. Mates, Femate, anp Youne. 
I Founp this species quite common on the islands near the entrance 
of the Bay of Fundy, which I visited early in May 1833. They were 
then journeying northwards, although many pass the whole year in the 
northern parts of the State of Maine, and the British provinces of New 
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where, however, they seem to have been 
overlooked, or confounded with our Common American Crossbill. ‘Those 
which I met with on the islands mentioned above were observed on 
their margins, some having alighted on the bare rocks, and all those 
which were alarmed immediately took to wing, rose to a moderate 
height, and flew directly eastward. On my passage across the Gulf of 
St Laurence to Labrador, in the same month, about a dozen White- 
winged Crossbills, and as many Mealy Redpolls, one day alighted 
on the top-yards of the Ripley; but before we could bring our guns 
from below, they all left us, and flew ahead of the vessel, as if intent 
on pointing out to us the place to which we were bound. On the 
30th of June, a beautiful male was shot, on a bunch of grass growing 
out of the fissure of a rock, on a small island a few miles from the coast 
of Labrador ; and on the 23d of July, my young friend Dr Grorer 
Suatrruck, procured a fine adult female on the Murre Islands, whilst 
she was feeding among the scanty herbage. 
Within the limits of the United States, I have obtained some du- 
ring winter along the hilly shores of the Schuylkill River in Pennsyl- 
vania; also in New Jersey, and in one instance in Maryland, a few 
miles from Baltimore, beyond which southward I have never met with 
this species, nor have I heard of any having been seen there. Accord- 
ing to Dr Townsrnp, who resided about four years on the Columbia 
River, none are met with in that region. As it appears that indivi- 
duals accidentally visit Europe, I am led to think that the true summer 
haunts of this species are as yet not better known than those of the Bo- 
hemian Chatterer and Common Crossbill. The latter has been shot in 
