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AMERICAN WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 
Loxia ieucoptera , 
“ falcirostra , 
Gmelin. Buonaparte. 
Pennant. Fleming ? 
Loxia. Loxos — Curved—oblique. Leucoptera. Leucos — White. 
Pteron — A wing. 
This and the following species were first distinguished by 
M. De Selys Longchamps. 
The one before us is a native of the whole of the northern parts 
of North America, where it inhabits the extensive pine forests. 
It is found also in northern Europe, a few being occasionally 
seen in Sweden, and also in Germany; and occurred in Silesia 
and Thuringia in considerable numbers in the autumn of 1826. 
A White-winged Crossbill, a female bird, was shot near 
Northampton in the winter of the year 1848. It was kept 
alive for four months. Of this Mr. William Felkin, Jun., 
of Carrington, near Nottingham, has obligingly informed me. 
One in Mr. Yarrell’s collection was picked up dead on the 
sea-shore at Exmouth, on the 17th. of September, 1845, by 
E. B. Fitton, Esq.; and another, in that of Hugh Edwin 
Strickland, Esq., was shot near Worcester, in 1836, being in 
company at the time with the Common Crossbill; another 
was shot by Mr. Seaman, near Ipswich, Suffolk. One a female, 
in the garden of Robert J. Bell, Esq., of Mickleover House, 
Derby; it was in company with a flock of Fieldfares; one, 
out of a flock of four or five, on some fir trees near Thetford, 
Norfolk, on the 10th. of May, 1846; several near Walton 
House, Carlisle, Cumberland, in the same year; and nine 
others, five males and four females, by Mr. Thomas Bond, 
of Swinestead House, near Brampton, also in that county. 
One was shot out of a small flock which were feeding on 
fir cones, at Drinkstone, in Suffolk; and one at Larigan, near 
Penzance, Cornwall. 
