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FEMALE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
when a deep snow has covered the ground they appear to lose all 
sense of danger, and by spreading some favourite food, may be 
knocked down with sticks or even caught by hand while busily 
engaged in feeding. Their manners are in other respects very 
similar to those of the common Crossbill, as described by Wilson, 
and they are said also to partake of the fondness for saline 
substances so remarkable in that species. 
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