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COMMON CROSSBILL. 



LOXIA CUBVIROSTRA, LlNN. 



PLATE CXCVII. Vol. II. p. 559. 



The following note respecting this bird is from my friend Dr T. M. 

 Brewek. " Among a number of eggs wbich I obtained from Coventry, 

 Vermont, there was one of the Common Crossbill, a description of 

 which, it never having been before procured by any naturalist, to my 

 knowledge, and consequently never having been described, will, I doubt 

 not, be acceptable. It measures thirte en-sixteenths of an inch in length, 

 by three-eighths in breadth. At the large rend it is broadly rounded, 

 and the smaller end forms a complete and abrupt cone. The ground- 

 colour is a greenish-white, pretty thickly covered, more especially at the 

 large end, with very broAvn spots. Crossbills appeared in large flocks, 

 in the winter of 1832, in the pine woods near Fresh Pond, and with 

 them two or three White-winged Crossbills. They were very noisy, 

 rarely quiet for many moments at a time. Before this winter I have 

 been told that the White-wing was the most common, though never very 

 abundant. 



TOWHEE BUNTING. 



Fringilla erythrophthalma, Linn. 



PLATE XXIX. Vol. J. p. 150. 



In an adult male preserved in spirits, the palate is ascending and 

 deeply concave ; its two longitudinal ridges uniting in front, where there 

 is a considerable soft pronainence ; the upper mandible beneath flat, 

 with a median ridge and two lateral, broad and flattened ridges. The 

 width of the mouth is 5f twelfths. Posterior aperture of the nares 

 linear, and strongly papillate, as in all the species. Tongue 5^ twelfths 

 long, fleshy above, toward the end horny, convex, and with a medi- 



