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Pinicola enucleator, Gould, iii. pi. 44; Harting, p. 113; 



Dresser, iv. p. 111. 

 Pine Grosbeak, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 8. 



Enucleator, from e-nucleo = I take out the kernel, nucleus. 



Has occurred at Harrow, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, and near 

 Exeter : many other instances of its having been observed in 

 various localities are on record, but few, if any, are worthy of 

 credit (c/. J. H. Gurney, jun.. Zoologist, 1877, pp. 242-250). 

 It inhabits the conifer-zone of the northern parts of both 

 the Old and the New Worlds, rarely straying southwards ; 

 unknown in India; of doubtful occurrence in China and Japan. 



Genus LOXIA, Unnaus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 299 (1766). 

 Loxta, from Xo?6s = crosswise ; a mediaeval name. 



Loxia pityopsittacus. Pareot Crossbill. 



Loxia Pytiopsittacus, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. i. 

 p. 106 (1802). 



Loxia pytiopsittacus, Naum. iv. p. 339 ; Macg. i. p. 429 ; 



Gray, p. 111. 

 Loxia pityopsittacus, Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 24; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 23 ; 



Newton, ii. p. 207 ; Gould, iii. pi. 46 ; Harting, p. 114; 



Dresser, iv. p. 121. 

 Parrot Crossbill, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 34. 



Pityopsittacus, from ttX'tvs, gen. jrirtios, a pine tree, and i|/irraKos = a parrot. 



A rare visitor, examples having been obtained in Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, and Hampshire, and twice in 

 Scotland. It breeds in the pine-forests of Scandinavia and 

 Northern Russia, and in winter strays as far as France and 

 Italy. 



Loxia curvirostra. Crossbill. 



Loxia Curvirostra, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 299 (1766). 



Loxia curvirostra, Naum. iv. p. 356 ; Hewitson, p. 212 ; Gray, 



