Species II. CURYIROSTRA LEVCOPTERA. 
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
[Plate XXXI. Fig. 3.] 
Turton, Sysi. i., p. 515.* 
Tins is a much rarer species than the preceding; though 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 slen- 
der conformation of body. The bird represented in the plate was shot 
in the neighborhood of the Great Pine Swamp, in the month of Septem- 
ber, by my friend Mr. Ainsley, a German naturalist, collector in this 
country for the Emperor of Austria. The individual of this species 
mentioned by Turton and Latham, had evidently been shot in moulting 
time. The present specimen was a male in full and perfect plumage, f 
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 plum- 
age 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 Cross- 
bill. 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 ascertained. 
* We add the following synonymes: — Loxia leucoptera, Gmel. Si/st. i., p. 844. — 
Loxia falcirostra, Lath. Ind. Orti. i., p. 371. — White-winged Cross-bill, Lath. Syn. 
tit., p. 108, 2. Id. Sup. p. 148. Arct. Zool. n., No. 208. 
t This is a mistake ; it was a young male. 
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