152 LOXl A LEUCOPTERA. 
The female white-winged crossbill is five inches 
three quarters long, and nearly nine in extent; the # 
is more than five-eighths long, of a dark horn col° , 
paler on the edges ; as is the case in the whole 
it is very much compressed throughout, but espec ’ 8 t 
at the point, where the edges almost unite into 0l) u 
both mandibles are curved (the lower one up' v ' pf 
trom the base, the ends crossing each other; the ni’l'!, 
has its ridge distinct, and usually crosses to the W* 
both sexes, and not, as Wilson appears to inti * 1 ' 11 ^ 
generally in one sex only; the lower mandibk' i 
considerably shorter ; the tongue is short, cartilagfo^u 
aud entire; the irides are of a very dark hazel I * 
small setaceous feathers covering the nostrils, whk % 
one of the characteristics of the genus, are wh‘J‘ 
gray ; the bottom of the plumage is every where S H ( 
colour ; the head, and all the upper parts down to h, 
rump, are of a grayish green strongly tinged ",V C 
olive, each feather being marked with black in « 
centre, giving the plumage a streaked appearance; 
rump is pure pale lemon yellow, the upper tail-coy 1 "^ 
are blackish, margined with whitish olive; the f' r % 
and a broad line over and round the eye and bilb 
slightly distinguished from the general colour of L 
head by the want ot olivaceous, being grayish vvh 1 .. 
and as the feathers are very small, appear inin" tc i 
dotted with black: the curved blackish spot, 
apparent in the colours of the male, is slightly ind i,: “'ll 
on the sides of the head; the sides of the' head 
neck, the throat, and the breast, are of a grayish ii 
also streaked with blackish, and somewhat tinged t 
yellowish on the sides of the breast; the flanks bec 0 '], 
of a dingy yellowish gray, and have large, dull, bla 1 - ' 
blotches; the belly and vent are of a much l 1 " (1 , 
whitish, aud the streaks are on that part long, »« rI ’lj|, 
and well defined ; the under tail-coverts are black' * 
with broad white margins ; the wings are three iff 
and a half long, reaching, when closed, to the last ot ' j 
tail-coverts; the first three primaries are subequal ■ ^ 
longest, the fourth being but little shorter, and 111 11 
