WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
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186 . LOXIA LEUCOPTERA, GMELIN. — CURVIROSTRA LEUCOPTERA^ 
WILSON. 
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
WILSON* PLATE. XXXI. FIG. III. YOUNG MALE. 
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 plumage ; and a 
less and more slender conformation of body. The 
individual of this species mentioned by Turton and 
Latham, has 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. 
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