206 GROSBEAK. 



best corresponded with his definition of the shape of the bill, and 

 we have continued to follow his steps in the present work. 



But this will not apply to those furnished by our later discoveries; 

 as several have been met with, by no means reconcileable to any 

 Genus hitherto fixed ; and on that account, of course, requiring a 

 situation apart; yet the greater number, although not precisely 

 coinciding in every nice point, we have included in some Genus 

 to which they nearest approached, rather than create a new one. 

 In short, in respect to the Grosbeaks, as well as elsewere, we have 

 been solicitous, as much as may be, to follow the path traced out by 

 Linnaeus, so long approved, and so generally received. 



1 — COMMON CROSBILL. 



Loxia curvirostra, Tnd. Orn.h. 370. Lin. i. 299. Faun. suec. No. 224. Gm.Lin.i. 



843. Scop. Ann. i. No. 200. Kramer, 365. Brun. No. 238- Muller, No. 244. 



Frisch, t. 11. Georgi, 174. Faun. Arag. 85. Schcpf. el. 0»m. t. 45. Spalowsk,\u. 



t. 35.36. Gerin. iii. t. 324. Daud. ii. 357. Shaw's Zool. ix. 231. pi. 41— male & fern. 



Tern. Man. d'Om. p. 196. Id. Ed. ii. p. 325. 

 Loxia, Rail, 86. A. Will. 181. t. 44. Borotvsk. iii. 131. t. 61. Bris. iii. 329. t. 17. 



f.3. Id. Svo. i. 401. 

 Coccothraustes curvirostra, Klein, 96. 13. Id. Stem. t. 19. f. 19. a. b. 

 Le Bee croise, Buf. iii. 449. t. 27. 2. PI. enl. 218. Hist. Prov. ii. 317. 

 Krautvogel, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. 1. 19. lower fig. 

 Kreuzschnabel, ( K reu z vogel ), Naturf. xii. 92. Id. ii. 66. Id. xvii. 86. Id. xxi. 127. 



Id. xxii. 122. Id. xxv. 17. Schmid, Vog. p. 76. t. 62. 

 Common Crossbill, or Sheld-Apple, Gen. Syn. iii. 106. Br. Zool. i. No. 115. pi. 49. 



Zd. 1S12. i. p. 425. pi. 54. Edw. pi. 303. Will. Engl. 248. pi. 44. Alb. i. pi. 61. 



Arct. Zool. ii. No. 208. Collins' s Birds, pi. 1. f. 1. 2. Lewin's Birds, ii. pi. 66. 



Walcot, ii. pi. 205. Bewick, i. pi. p. 130. Donov. Birds, ii. pi. 39. Ornith. Diet. 



Pult. Dors. p. 11. Graiw, Br. Birrf*. i. pi. 16. Jmer. Ora. pi. 31. f. 1. 2. 



SIZE of a Lark ; length six inches and three quarters ; weight 

 one ounce and a half. Bill strong, brown ; both mandibles very 

 convex, and cross each other at the ends, which are much curved, 

 and pointed ; irides dusky hazel ; a few hairs extend forwards over 

 nostrils : in the male, the predominant colour of the plumage is 



