318 BIEDS — FEINGILLIDJS. 



scarcely have been more conspicuous, Leing close to the intersection of several roads 

 (all of them more or less bordered with ornamental evergreens), in plain sight of as many 

 residences, and constantly exposed to the view of passers-by. The materials of its com- 

 position were of rather a miscellaneous character, becoming finer and more select from 

 without inwards. An exterior of bristling spruce twigs loosely arranged surrounded a 

 mass of matted shreds of cedar bark, which formed the principal body of the structure, 

 a few strips of the same appearing around the upper border, the whole eu ceeded on the 

 inside by a sort of felting of finer maierial, which received the scanty lining of black 

 horse-hair, fine rootlets, grass stems, pieces of string, and two or three feathers. This 

 shallow felting of the inner nest can apparently be removed intact from the body of the 

 structure, which, besides the above mentioned raiiterials, contained small pieces of moss, 

 leaves, grass, string, cottony substances, and the green foliage of cedar. The nest meas- 

 ured internally two and one-half inches in diameter by over one and a quarter in depth ; 

 being in diameter externally about tour inches, auri rjther shallow in appearance. 



"The fresh eggs are in ground color of a decided gieenish tint, almost immaculate on 

 the smaller end, but on the opposite side with irregular spots and dottings of lavender- 

 brown of slightly varying shade, interspersed with a few heavy surface-spots of dark 

 purple-brown. There is no approach in the arrangement of these to a circle, but between 

 the apex of the larger end, and the greatest diameter of the egg, is a fine hair like sur- 

 face line; in two examples it forms a complete though irregular circle, and encloses the 

 principal spots. In the other egg, which is the largest, this line is not quite complete, 

 and the primary blotches are wanting, but the secondary markirgs are correspondingly 

 larger and more numerous. In another egg there are two perfect figures of 3 formed on 

 the sides by the secondary marks, one of them large and siugularly symmetrical. The 

 eggs measure respectively .74 by .66, 75 by .58, .76 by .59." 



LOXIA LEDCOPTERA Gm. 



"White-'winged Crossbill. 



Curvirosfra leucopiera, Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Kep. for 1860, .166, 346; Reprint, 1861, 8, 18. 



Loxia leucopiera, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric Rep. for 1874, 566; Reprint, 



1875, 6.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 8; Re\i.sed List, Journ. Ciu. Nat. Hist., 



i, 1879, 175 ; Reprint, 9. 



Loxia leucopiera, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 844. 

 Curmrostra leucopiera, Wilson, Am. Ora , iv, 1811, 4S. 



Wings in both sexes with two conspicuous white bars ; male rosey-red, female brownish- 

 olive, streaked and speckled with dusky, the rump saffron. Length, about 6; wing, 3^; 

 tail, 2^. 



Habitat, Northern North America, south in winter to the United States. Greenland. 

 Accidental in Europe. 



Rare and irregular winter visitor. Not given by Dr. Kirtland or Mr. 

 Reed. Inserted in my catalogue of 1861, on the authority of Mr. Kirk- 

 patrick, who informed me that it had been taken at Willoughby, Lake 

 county. Mr. Dury informs me that it was abundant in the vicinity of 

 Cincinnati in the winter of 1868-9, in company with the preceding 

 species, and even more numerous than they. 



