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+ COMMON 
CROSSBILL.. 
DescripTion. 
PEMALEs 
Gi (Oy Se Baek Ak: 
HE bill in this genus is ftrong, convex above and below;. 
and very thick at the bafe.. 
Noftrils {mall and round. 
Tongue as if cut off at the end. 
Toes placed three * before and one behind.. 
Wir a) PiO: UR) a OES. 
Loxia curviroftra, Liz. Sy/f. i. ps 299. N° 1.—Faun. Succes 224.—Scopis 
ann, i. p. 200.— Kram. el. 365. N° 2.-—Bruxz. p. 66. N° 238 ea 
N° 244.—Frifch. t. 11.—Georgi Reife, p. 174. 
Le Bec-croifé, Brif. orn. iii. p. 329. N° 1. pl. 17. f. 3.—Buf. oif, iii. 
p- 449. pl. 27. f. 2.—P. enl. 218, 
Sheld-apple, or Crofs-bill, Radi /yn. p. 86. A.—VWill. orn. P- 248. t. 450. 
—Albin. i. pl. 61.—Edw. pl. 303.—Br. Zool. is N° 115. pl. 49.— 
Ar &.. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mufv 
HIS bird is about the fize of a. Lark, and is fix inches and 
three quarters long. It is known by the fingularity of its. 
bill, both mandibles of which curve oppofite ways, and crofs each 
other; the colour of the upper blackifh, the under grey: irides. 
cinereous hazel: the colours of the-plumage-are apt to vary: the 
male is in general of a red-lead, inclining to rofe-colour, and 
more or lefs. mixed with brown; the under parts are confiderably- 
paler, and growing almoft white at the vent: the wings and tail: 
are brown; the laft a trifle forked: the legs black. 
The female is of a green colour, more or lefs mixed with: 
brown in thofe parts where the male is-red. ‘The young males: 
* The laft {pecies excepted, which has only two toes before. _ 
; are: 
