FEMALE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
LOXM LEUCOFTENJl. 
Plate XV. Fig. 3. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, IV, p. 48, Pl. 41, for the young male. 
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Loxia leucoptera, Gmel. Syst. I, p. 844, Sp. 12. Yieill. Gal. Ois. I, p. 56, PI. 52, 
young male. Nob. Ohs. Sp. 84. In. Cat. and Syn. Birds U. S. Sp. 195. 
Loxia falcirostra, Lath. Ind. p. 371, Sp. 2. 
Le Bec-croise leucoptere, Sonn. Buff. XLYII, p. 65. Yieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. 
2d ed. Ill, p. 339. 
White-winged Crossbill,L, ath. Syn. Ill, p. 108. Sp. 2. Id. Suppl. p. 148. Dixon, 
Voy. t. 20, p. 358, female. Penn. Arct. Zool. II, Sp. 208. 
My Collection , Male, Female, young, and middle-aged. 
The White-winged Crossbill, first made known by Latham in 
his celebrated Synopsis, was subsequently introduced on his 
authority into all the huge compilations of the last century. 
Wilson gave us the first figure of it, which is that of the male, 
and promised a representation of the female, together with “such 
additional facts relative to its manners as he might be able to 
ascertain/’ It is to fulfil Wilson’s engagement that we now give 
a correct figure of the other sex of this species, which we are 
also enabled to describe minutely in all its different states of 
plumage. This has never before been done, though Vieillot, 
since Wilson’s time, has compiled some account of its habits, 
described the female, and recently published a bad enough figure 
of the male in his Galerie des Oiseaux. 
The English name was bestowed by its discoverer, the scientific 
