346 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
as a North American species. We add a de- 
scription and measurements of our own specimen 
for comparison with others. 
Length, so far as we can measure from the 
stuffed specimen, about six inches and a quarter ; 
length of the wing, from the tip of the shoulder, 
four inches one-eighth ; length of the tarsus one 
Inch. The whole plumage is of a yellowish crimson 
red, shading into gray on the flanks, and centre 
of the belly and vent, more brilliant on the rump, 
and on the centre of the back having the base of 
the feathers dark ; the wings are umber brown, 
the feathers narrowly edged with greenish yellow. 
This specimen was used by Mr Bewick and Mr 
Selby for their figures and descriptions. 
White-winged Crossbill, Loxia leucop- 
tera. — L. falcirostra, Penn. — While-winged 
Crossbill of British authors. — The first noticed 
specimen of this distinct Crossbill was shot 
within two miles of Belfast, in 1802. Since, a 
very few instances are on record of specimens 
occurring in England, while its claim to a place 
in the Scottish list rests on a specimen mentioned 
by Pennant, which, “ he was told,” had been 
killed in Scotland. In Europe, it seems confined 
nearly to the northern parts, and is seen there 
very rarely. It was omitted by Temminck in the 
second edition of his Manual, and seems only to 
have been noticed by the more recent ornitholo- 
gists. It is supposed also to migrate or extend 
