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female white-winged crossbill. 
Oncologists of the new school, who appear to consider 
ff^' ai8e lves bound to acknowledge every genus proposed, 
' !u whatever quarter, or however minute and variable 
c Wacters on which it is based. 
GENUS XVI , — LOXIA. 
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1.BUCOPTERA FEMALE WHITE-' WINGED CROSSBILL. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE XV. FIG. III. 
white-winged crossbill, first made known by 
i'lt m in llis celebrated Synopsis, was subsequently 
q “'°du ce d on his authority into all the huge compila- 
4 J 8 of the last century. Wilson introduced the male, 
fC Promised the female, together with “ such additional 
*3 relative to its manners, as he might be able to 
CUin.” It is to fulfil Wilson’s engagement that we 
H}l . endeavour to describe minutely the other sex, in 
i 1 l ts rUtt* i. nlnmniw Tlii« lias never 
'vuvuui IU ucnmioi. lu.uuirwj ~ , 
W ,ls different states of plumage. Tins has never 
W* ' H ‘«n done, though Vieillot, since Wilson’s time, 
* 
u “tn none, inuugn * iciuui, t?****^ » 
C . 0rn piled some account of its habits, described the 
C* and recently published a bad enough figure of 
•|.!' l ‘ | l | ' in his Galerie des Oiseaux. 
English name was bestowed by its discoverer, 
"h ^b'otitic was imposed on by the compiler, Gmelin, 
^ » like the daw in the fable, though with much better 
of appropriated to himself the borrowed plumes 
’bn ei ' s , making Latiiam’s new species his own, by 
dj s 8 *he first to give them scientific names, which the 
lijg °' er er himself was afterwards obliged to adopt in 
h„ u * Ornithologicus. In the present instance, 
O'er, he took the liberty of altering Gmclin’s name, 
V, 1 probably with the view of giving one analogous 
hini Loxia curvirostra, and indicative of the 
Liable form of the bill. That character having since 
eh', employed as generic, the propriety of Latham s 
Hh U8e ’ las ceased to exist, and in fact the advantage is 
t<3 etl >cr on the side of Gmelin. We have therefore 
ttsi, ted the ri”ht of priority, even in the case of an 
"tper. ° 
