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them as Varieties, and says, " We received a male and female of the 

 large Variety out of Shropshire," with a bill remarkably short and 

 thick, and more incurvated than in the common kind. 



M. Bechstein and M. Temminck, esteem this as a distinct species. 

 It has escaped our observation. 



3— WHITE- WINGED CROSSBILL. 



Loxia falcirostra, Ind. Orn. i. 371. Gen. Zool. ix. 233. 



Loxia leucoptera, Gm. Lin. i. S44. Daad. ii. 358. 



Bee croise, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Ixx. 



White-winged Crossbill, Gen. Syn. iii. 108. Id. Sup. 148. Dixon's Vox/, pi. in p. 356. 



female. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 208. Br. Zool. 1812. i. p. 428. Lin. Trans, vii. p. 309. 



Am. Orn. pi. 31. f. 3 — male. Orn. Diet, fy Supp. 



SIZE of a Goldfinch ; length five inches and three quarters, and 

 eight inches and a half broad. Bill formed as in the Common one, 

 dusky horn-colour ; nostrils covered with reflected, pale buff bristles > 

 at the base of the bill, from eye to eye, a brown streak ; feathers of 

 the head, neck, back, and under parts whitish, deeply margined 

 with crimson, and, as in some parts the white is not fully covered 

 with the former, the bird has a mottled appearance ; the rump is 

 pale crimson ; vent dirty white ; wings black, with a bar of white, 

 beginning just below the shoulder, passing obliquely ; and a second, 

 or rather spot of the same, below the first, but only on the inner 

 half; the second quills tipped with white; tail black, and forked; 

 legs brown. 



In the female the general colour inclines to white ; the feathers 

 deeply margined with crimson, giving a variegated appearance ; in 

 the direction of the jaw a brown streak ; over the eye pale ferrugi- 

 nous ; rump pale crimson ; vent dirty white ; wings as in the male, 

 but the black inclines to brown. 



Inhabits the northern parts of America; at Hudson's Bay and 

 New York well known ; comes into the latter in March, and in May 



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