GuassH. CROSS-BILLED. 319 
Loxia. Gefner av. 591. Loxia curviroftra. Lin. fpf. 11 5. Cross- 
fldr. av. I. 426. 299. BILLED. 
Shell-apple, or Crofs-bill. Korflnaff, | Kinlgelrifvare. : 
Wil. orn. 248. Faun. Suec. fp. 224. Sco- 
Raii fyn. av. 86. poli, No. 200. 
Charlton ex. 77. Krumbfchnabl, Kreutzvogel. 
Ldw. av. 303. Kram. 46s. 
Cat. Carol. app. Kreutz-Schnabel. Fri/ch,I. it. 
Le Bec-croife. Braff av. II. Norveg. Kors-Nzb. Kors- fagl. : 
329. tab. 17. fig. 3. Br. 238. 
Br. Zool. 106. plate U. fi 2. 
“HERE are two varieties of this bird: Mr. 
& Edwards has very accurately figured the 
leffer, which we have feen frequently : the other 
is very rare. We received a male and female out 
of Shropfbire, which were fuperior in fize to the 
former, the bill remarkably thick and fhort, more 
encusvated than that of the common kind, and 
the ends more blunt. 
Thefe birds, like the former, are inconftant vi- 
fitants of this ifland: in Germany and Switzerland * 
they inhabit the pine forefts, and breed in thofe 
trees fo early as the months of January and Febru- 
ary. They feed on the feeds of the cones of pines 
and firs; and are very dexterous in f{caling them, 
for which purpofe the crofs ftruéture of the lower 
mandible of theirsbill is admirably adapted; they 
feed alfo on hemp feed, and the pips or kernels 

* Gefuer 59: Kramer Elench. 365. 
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