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the inside -was felted by finer material, and lined with, horse hair, fine rootlets, grass 

 stems, pieces of string and two or three feathers. The structure also contained small 

 pieces of moss, leaves, grass, string, cottony substances, and the green foliage of 

 cpdar.* The eggs are three or four in number, usually four. Mr. Bicknell gives the 

 sizes of the three eggs which this nest contained as.74x.56, .75x.58,.78x.59 respectively. 

 The color of the eggs is pale greenish, spotted and dotted about the larger end with 

 various shades of brown and lavender shell-markings; average size .7Ex.57. 



521a. MEXICAN CBOSSBILL. Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ridgw. Geog. 

 Dist. — Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, west to the Sierra Nevada, and south 

 through New Mexico, Arizona and the tablelands of Mexico to Guatemala. 



The nesting and eggs of this subspecies are probably indistinguishable from 

 those of the American Crossbill. 



522. WHITE-WINGED CBOSSBILL. Loxia leucoptera Gmel. Geog. Dist.— 

 Northern North America, south into the United States in winter to or beyond 40". 

 Breeds from Northern New England and higher Rocky Mountains northward. 



This is not so common a species as the Red Crossbill, although they are both fre- 

 quently found associated in deep evergreen woods. The White-winged Crossbill la 

 resident in Northern New England, and from the Rocky Mountain region of Colo- 

 rado, Wyoming and Montana northward. It is possessed of the same uncertain and 

 erratic disposition as L. c. minor, and its movements are not to be relied upon; for 

 this reason, it is likely to be found breeding in suitable places in) any of the northern 

 tier of States. It breeds in winter or early spring, and the nesting is said to be like 

 that of the Red Crossbill. The eggs are described as pale blue; the larger end rather 

 thickly spattered with fine dots of black and ashy-lilac; the size .80x.56. They are 

 said to resemble those of the Purple Finch. 



S22. White-winged Crossbili. (From Turner). 



523. ALETTTIAN LEUCOSTICTE. Leucosticte !/riseonu(fha (Brandt.) Geog. 

 Dist. — Aleutian and Pr^bilof Islands, Alaska; west to Commander Islands, Kam- 

 chatka, east to Kadiak. 



• For full account of this nest and the eggs see Bull. Nutt. Ornlth. Club, Vol. V, pp. 



7-11. 



