BIRDS. PASSEitES. 18. Loxia. 31 



iCrofs-bill. Br. ZooLt. 49. Lewin t.6j. Donovan £.39. 



Length 7 inches : extent 13 inches : weight near 2 ounces. 

 Bill dusky, the mandibles hooked and crossing each other : iris 

 dusky : head and neck variable red orange and yellowish : back and 

 lying -coverts more or lefs olive-green, with dusky marks: rump 

 orange: vent whitish: under tail-coverts with dusky fpots : legs 

 dusky : claws black. 



Female dull olive-green where the male is red ; wings and tail 

 dull brown : belly palish-green. 



71. L. falcirostra. Mandibles crossing each other : body 

 crimson, with a whitish mixture : wings black, with 

 2 white bands; the secondary feathers tipt with white: 

 tail black. 



White-winged Crossbill. Dixon Voy. t.p. 356. ' 



Shot near Belfast, in Jan. 1802. Linn. Trans, j.p. 309. 



Length 5 inches 3 quarters : size of a goldfinch. 

 Bill dusky, with a ftreak of brown" from the bafe to the eye: plumage 

 white, with broad crimfon margins, having the appearance of aa 

 undulate mixture of both colours : rump pale crimfon : vent dirty 

 white : wings with an oblique white band from the shoulders, and 

 a fecond short one below : fecondary quill-feathers tipt with white : 

 legs brown. Female brown above, beneath and vent yellowish: 

 eh in pale. 



72. L. Cocc&thrau&tes. Chesnut brown, beneath purplish- 

 grey : chin black: wings with a white stripe: the 

 middle-feathers rhombic at the points : tail-feathers 

 black at the base on the thinner side. 



Hawfinch. Lewin iii.'f. 66. Donovan t. 43% ' Walcot t, 206. 



Length 7 inches : extent 1.3 : weight near 2 ounces. 

 Bill very ftrong and thick, pale dull pink : 'iris grey : orbits black • 

 sides and back of the neck grey : rump pale chefnut : middle quill- 

 feathers truncate, angular, curled at the edges, dark blue : greater- 

 ones black, marked with white on the inner-webs : lesser wing- 

 coverts white : tail short, black, tipt with white on the inner-webs : 

 legs red-brown : claws black, 



73. L. Enucleator. Crimson, with black spots on the back 

 and shoulders : belly and vent cinereous : win^s 

 black, with 2 white stripes ; tail blackish, with a 

 whitish margin. 



Pine Grosbeak. Br. Zool.'t. $g. Lewin t, 68. Donov.t.if. 



Length above 7 inches : weight more than 2 ounces* 

 Bill dusky: iris hazel: head, neck, breaft and 'rump crimfon : fea- 

 thers of the back and lesser wing-coverts black with a "reddish 

 border: quills dusky, with a dirty-white outer edge : tail a little 

 forked : legs short, dusky. Female g'reenish-brown, with here and 

 there a reddish or yellowish tinge. 



74. L. chloris, Yellowish-green; outer quill-feathers 

 bright yellow on the outer- webs '; tail dusky, the 

 outer-feathers yellow on the outer-webs. 



Green finch, Lewint. 70, Albin 1, t. 58. Walcot t, 208. 



Bill pale horn-colour : iris hazel: sides of the neck inclining to 

 grey : belly greenlsh-wnitc : wing-coverts grey 3 rump yellowish j 

 legs flesh -colour, Female dusky-green, 



75. h. Pyrrhula. Crown, front and chin, wings and tail 

 black: neck and back grey: wing-cove lis 'with a 

 white line: rump and vent white: breast and IbQlly 

 of the male red, of the female rusty-brown. 



