Class II. WHITE WINGED CROSSBILL. 429 



and three quarters in length. The bill is of a 

 dusky horn-color; the nostrils covered with re- 

 flected bristles of a pale buff-color ; at the base 

 of the bill from eye to eye, a streak of brown : 

 the feathers on the head, neck, back, and under 

 parts are whitish, deeply margined with crim- 

 son ; and as some part of the white appears not 

 fully covered with the crimson, gives the bird a 

 mottled appearance : the rump is pale crimson, 

 the vent dirty white ; the wing is black, marked 

 with a bar of white from the shoulder, passing 

 obliquely backwards, and a second bar, or ra- 

 ther spot of the same below that, but only in 

 the inner half: the second quills are each of 

 them tipped with white ; the tail black ; the legs 

 brown. 



The female differs from the other sex much 

 in the same manner as in the common cross- 

 bill," J. L. 



