PLATE XC. 
The Crofs Bill^ 
Is not only an inhabitant of this country, but of Auftria alfo, where they breed ; but I never heard 
bf their breeding with us. They are certainly the moft fcarce bird we have, very few of them being 
taken ; they are fometimes caged on account of their fcarcity, I fhould fuppofe, as they have not 
any great properties appertaining to them, neither are they fongfters. They have a fliort tongue, 
which reaches only to the croffing of their bill, from whence the upper mandible is perfeftly folid, 
and flat withinfide to the point. They change their colour from a dirty olive to thofe which the 
bird of this plate reprefent. They feed upon hard feeds like our Finches. This bird was (hot in 
the month of November, in Buckinghamlhire. 
