WHITE-CROWNED BUNTING. 
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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 plumage ; 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 mentioned by Turton and Latham, 
had evidently been shot in moulting' time. The present 
specimen was a male in full and perfect plumage. 
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 female of the present species will 
be introduced as soon as a good specimen can be obtained, 
with such additional facts relative to their manners as may 
then be ascertained. 
WHITE-CROWNED BUNTING — EMBERIZA LEUCOPHRYS. 
Plate XXXI. Fig. 4. 
Turton , Syst. p. 536. — Peak's Museum , No. 6587. 
ZONO TRICHI A LE U COP HR YS. — Swainson. 
Fringilla leucophrys, Bonap. Synop. p. 107. — Fringilla (Zonotrichia) leucophrys, 
North . Zool. ii. p. 255. 
This beautifully marked species is one of the rarest of its 
tribe in the United States, being chiefly confined to the 
northern districts, or higher interior parts of the country, except 
in severe winters, when some few wanderers appear in the 
