CROSS-BILL. 
in (jermany, the colour of the adult Male is 
reddish, or green mixed with red: but they 
lose this red, like the Linnets, when they are 
kept in the cage ; and only retain the green, 
which is more deeply impressed both in the 
young and in the old. For this reason, they 
are called, in some parts of Germany, Krinis, 
or Griinitz ; that is, the Greenish Bird. The 
two extreme colours, therefore, have not been 
well chosen by Edwards : we must not infer, 
as his /figures would suggest, that the Male is 
red, and the Female green ; there is every rea- 
son to believe that, in the same season, and at 
tiie same age, the Female differs from the Male 
only in the greater faintness of the colours." 
Our annexed figure is copied from the Cock 
Cross-Bill of Edwards, above alluded to by 
EufFcn. These birds, build as early as Ja- 
nuary : they place their nests under the large 
branches of the Pine ; fixing them with the re- 
sin of that tree, and so besmearing them with 
this substance, that the melted snow, or rains, 
cannot penetrate. In the young, the cornei s of 
the bill are yellow, and they hold it constantly 
open as long as they are fed by the mother. 
