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VARIETIES: 
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+ WHITE- 
WINGED 
CROSSBILL. 
DeEscRiPTION. 
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3. 
+ PARROT- 
BILLED GR. 
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DEseRIPTION. 
GR OS BE A XK. 
Briffon mentions a variety, which differed in having the 
plumage of a blackifh rufous colour, with a red head. 
Mr. Pennant alfo {peaks of two forts, a larger and fmaller; 
but fays that thofe figured in Edwards are the fmaller: he cannot 
therefore mean the following, which I do not find fpoken of by 
any one. 
Lev. Mu/. 
HE fize of this fmall fpecies is about that of a Goldfinch, 
and meafures only five inches and three quarters in length. 
The bill, like the other, of a dufky horn-colour: noftrils covered 
with reflected briftles, of a pale buff-colour; at the bafe of the 
bill, from eye to eye, a ftreak of brown: the feathers on the 
head, neck, back, and under parts, are whitifh, deeply margined 
with crimfon; and, as fome part of the white appears not fully 
covered with the crimfon, gives the bird a mottled appearance : 
the rump is pale crimfon: the vent dirty white: the wing 
is black, marked with a bar of white from the fhoulder, paffing 
obliquely backwards, and a fecond bar, or rather fpot, of the 
fame below that, but only in the inner half: the fecond quills are 
each of them tipped with white: the tail black: legs brown. 
I have received this both from Hud/on’s Bay and New York. 
Lev. Muf. 
IZE of the Hedge Sparrow: length feven inches. The bilf 
fafhioned much like that of a Parrot, the upper mandible be- 
ing elongated and curved at the point, the under one fhort; 
colour of the bill pale, with a dufky tip: the head and part of 
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