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WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 

 CURVIROSTRA LEUCOPTERA. 

 [Plate XXXI.— Fig. 3.] 



TuRTON, Syst. I, p, 515. 



THIS is a much rarer species than the preceding; tho found 

 frequenting the same places, and at the same seasons; differing, 

 however from the former in the deep black wings and tail, the 

 large bed of white on the wing, the dark crimson of the plumage ; 

 and a less and more slender conformation of body. The bird re- 

 presented in the plate was shot in the neighbourhood of the Great 

 Pine swamp, in the month of September, by my friend Mr. Ains- 

 ley, a German naturalist, collector in this country for the emperor 

 of Austria. The individual of this species mentioned by Turton 

 and Latham, has evidently been shot in moulting time. The pre- 

 sent specimen was a male in full and perfect plumage. 



The White-winged Crossbill is five inches and a quarter long, 

 and eight inches and a quarter in extent; wings and tail deep black, 

 the former crossed with two broad bars of white; general color of 

 the plumage dark crimson, partially spotted with dusky; lores and 

 frontlet pale brown; vent white, streaked with black; bill a brown 

 horn color, the mandibles crossing each other as in the preceding 

 species, the lower sometimes bending to the right, sometimes to the 

 left, usually to the left in the male, and to the right in the female of 

 the American Crossbill. The female of the present species will be 

 introduced as soon as a good specimen can be obtained, with such 

 additional facts relative to their manners as may then be ascer- 

 tained. 



