General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Male. 
Female. 
254 PASSERES. LOXIA. PaRRot- 
It is found in the countries of Europe before mentioned, 
in Asia, and also in North America. 
Pate 53. Figures of the natural size; the upper repre- 
senting the young male; the lower one the female bird. 
Bill greyish-black. Upper and lower parts tile-red, inter- 
mixed with yellowish-grey. Quills and tail greyish- 
black, margined with yellowish-white. Legs and toes 
brown. 
This is the plumage of the male from the first moult till 
he is one year old, when he acquires the dress of the 
adult birds; in which state the tilered has given place 
to ash-grey, deeply tinged and tinted with sulphur and 
lemon yellows. 
The prevailing colour of the female is a greenish-grey, va- 
ried by smoke-grey ; with the rump deep primrose-yel- 
low, and the under parts more or less streaked with 
blackish-grey. 
Parrot-Crossbill.— Loxia Pytiopsittacus, Bechst. 
PLATE 53**. Fig. 1. 
Loxia Pytiopsittacus, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 3. p. 106, 
Bec croisé perroquet, ou des Sapins, Temm. Man. @’Ornith. v. 1. p. 325 
Loxia curvirostra, major, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 843. sp. |. var. 2.—Lath. Ind. 
Ornith., v. 1. 371. sp. 1. var. y. 
Crucirostra pinetorum, Meyer, Vég. Liv. und. Esthl. p. 71. 
Kiefern Kreuzschnabel, Bechst. Nature. Deut. v. 3. p. 20. t. 32. fi 2, & 3. 
Grosschnabliger Kernbeiser, Meyer, "Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 137. ==: 
Vog. Deut. v. I. t. f 1. old male. 
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The probability suggested, in the history of the common 
Crossbill, that another species might be entitled to a place in 
the British Fauna, has been now placed beyond doubt; and, 
through the kindness of a scientific friend, Su Wititam J ar- 
DINE of Jardine Hall, in Dumfriesshire, I am enabled to 
give a figure of the species in question, which will exhibit, 
better than any description, the characteristic difference be- 
