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WHITE- WINGED CROSSBILL. 

 (Crucirostra leucoptera.) 



C. corpore croceo-coccineo, alis nigris Jasciis duabus albis, remigi- 



bus secundariis apice albis, cauda nigra. 

 Crossbill with a dull crimson body; wings black, with two white 



fasciae ; secondary quills white at the tips ; tail black. 

 Loxia leucoptera. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 844. 

 Loxia falcirostra. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 371 . 2. 

 White-winged Crossbill. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 108. 2. — Lath, 



Syn. Sup. 148. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 208. 



The White-winged Crossbill is rather less than 

 a Goldfinch; measuring only five inches and three 

 quarters in length: beak of a dusky horn-colour : 

 nostrils covered with reflected bristles of a pale 

 buff-colour : at the base of the beak, from eye to 

 eye, is a brown streak: head, neck, back, and under 

 parts whitish, the feathers deeply margined with 

 crimson ; which gives the birds the appearance of 

 being speckled : wings black with two white bars, 

 one of which passes obliquely backwards, and the 

 other reaches only half way across the wing : se- 

 condary quills tipped with white : rump pale crim- 

 son : vent dirty white : legs brown : tail black. 



Common at Hudson's Bay and New York ; and 

 is called by the name of Asitchou Achashish, at the 

 former place : has been said to have been shot in 

 England, but most likely was only an accidental 

 variety of the common Crossbill, or one escaped 

 from a cage, as North American birds rarely or 

 even never occur in Europe: it is said to appear 



