SPECIES 2. CURVIROSTRA LEUCOPTERA. 
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
[Plate XXXI. —Fig. 3.] 
Turton, Syst. I, p. 515.* 
This 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 plu- 
mage; and a less and more slender conformation of body. The 
bird represented in the plate was shot in the neighbourhood of 
the Great Pine swamp, in the month of September, by my friend 
Mr. Ainsley, a German naturalist, collector in this country for 
the Emperor of Austria. The individual of this species men- 
tioned by Turton and Latham, had evidently been shot in 
moulting time. The present specimen was a male in full and per- 
fect plumage, t 
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 
colour of the plumage dark crimson, partially spotted with dusky; 
lores and frontlet pale brown; vent white, streaked with black; 
bill a brown horn colour, 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 Crossbill. The 
* We add the following’ synonymes. — Ijixm leucoptera, Gmei. Syst. i, p. 844. 
— Loxia falcirostra, Lath. Jnd. Orn. i, p. S'?!. — White-winged Cross-bill, Lath. 
Syn. iiij p- 108. 2. Id. Sup. p. 148. Jlrct. Zool. n. No. 208. 
•j-This is a mistake; it was a young male. 
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