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CROSSBILL. 
Gloger. 
Nillson. 
Brehm. 
Jenyns. Gould. Yarrell. 
Tcenioptera. Tainia — A band. 
Pteron— A wing. 
To Mrs. H. E. Strictland, I am indebted for the coloured 
drawing from which the plate is taken; a ‘Happy Illustration’ 
of what might be expected from the daughter of so eminent 
a naturalist as Sir William Jardine, and the wife of such 
another as my friend Hugh Edwin Strickland ; Esq. 
The original plate is in Buonoparte’s monograph of the 
Crossbills. 
I describe this species as a British bird, as well as the 
one preceding it, because so many specimens of White-winged 
Crossbills have of late years occurred in the country, that it 
seems hardly posible to doubt but that some of them must 
belong to the one before us, an European species; two 
individuals of the number only, as far as I am aware, having 
been positively identified with the other, which is an American 
one; Buonaparte and Schlegel also indeed, though I know 
not on what authority, give Britain as one of the countries 
to which it occasionally migrates. 
One was shot at Grenville, near Belfast, in Ireland, January 
11th., 1802. 
Many examples of this species have occurred on the con¬ 
tinent of Europe; its proper habitat being the cold districts 
of Siberia and Northern Asia, from whence it wanders occa¬ 
sionally into the more temperate regions of Russia, Sweden, 
Germany, Holland, and Belgium. In this our continent, 
therefore, it is necessarily only considered as an occasional 
TWO-BARRED 
Loxia tcenioptera , 
“ hifasciata, 
Crucirostra bifasciata , 
Loxia leucoptera , 
Loxia. Ljoxos— Oblique—curved. 
