Class II. CROSS-BILLED GROSBEAK. 



425 



Loxia curvirostra. L. rostro 

 forficato, corpore versicolor^ 

 remigibus rectricibusque fus- 

 cis, oris exterioribus viridi- 

 olivaceis, cauda furcata. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 370. id. 

 Syn. iii. 106. 



Loxia. Gesner av. 5Q1. 



Aldr. av. i. 426. 



Shell-apple, or Cross-bill. Wil. 

 orn. 248. 



Rail Sy?i. av. 86. 



Charlton ex. 77« 



Edio. av. 303. 



Cat. Carol, app. 37- 



Le Bec-croise. Brisson av. iii. 



32g. tab. 17- Jig. 3. Hist. 



d'ois. iii. 44g. t. 27. f. 2. 



PL Enl. 218. 

 Loxia Curvirostra. Gm. Lin. 



843. 

 KorssnafF, Kinlgelrifvare. 



Faun. Suec. sp. 224. 

 Scopoli, No. 200. 

 Krumbschnabl, Kreutzvogel, 



Kram. 365. 

 Kreutz-Schnabel. Frisch,i. 11. 

 Norveg. Kors-Nseb. Kors- 



fugl. Br. 238. 

 Br. Zool. 106. plate U./. 2. 



.<4rrt. Zoo/, ii. 32. 



3. Cross- 

 billed. 



XHERE are two varieties of this bird: Mr. 

 Edwards has very accurately figured the lesser, 

 which we have seen frequently : the other is 

 very rare. We received a male and female of 

 the large variety out of Shropshire; the bill 

 was remarkably thick and short, more incurvat- 

 ed than that of the common kind, and the ends 

 more blunt. 



These birds, like the Pine Grosbeak, are in- 

 constant visitants of this island : in Germany and 

 Switzerland* they inhabit the pine forests, and 

 breed in those trees as early as the months oiJa- 



Gesner 59. Kramer Elench. 365. 



