TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 
LOXIA BIFASCIATA (C. L. Brehm). 
Crucirostra bifasciata, C. LZ. Brehm, Ornis, iii. p. 85 (1827). 
Loxia bifasciata, Yarr. ed. 4, ii. p. 211; Dresser, iv. p. 141. 
Bec-croisé bifascié, French. 
This is a rare straggler to our islands from the pine- 
forests of Northern Russia and Siberia. In general 
habits it is said to resemble the Common Crossbill, but 
as I have no personal acquaintance with it, I must refer 
my readers to other authors for details. At p. 195 of 
Mr. Howard Saunders’s ‘ Manual of British Birds’ excel- 
lent reasons may be found for not including the so-called 
White-winged Crossbill (Zoata leucoptera) in the British 
list. I have good reason to believe, though I have not 
positive proof, that a few of the present species haunted 
the comparatively few pine-groves still left in the 
detached portions of Bournemouth during the winter of 
1889-90. 
The principal figure in the accompanying Plate was 
drawn from a stuffed specimen lent for the purpose 
through the obliging kindness of Mr. John Cordeaux, 
who informs me that it was killed in September 1889 
in a marsh near Louth in Lincolnshire. 
