. The Ornithologists' and oologists' semi-annual . -white hue, spottedtowards the large end with purple and lilac. THE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. Loxia Leucoptera. In size, form, plumage and general habits, this species differs butlittle from the more common Red Crossbill, and its nest is stated tobe much similar. Like its congeners it is chiefly a winter visitant inthis country, and seldom observed except in severe cold weather,and then in isolated parties ; nor does it associate in any way withthe other species of Crossbill. It appears to make its general homein the desolate evergreen wooiis of
. The Ornithologists' and oologists' semi-annual . -white hue, spottedtowards the large end with purple and lilac. THE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. Loxia Leucoptera. In size, form, plumage and general habits, this species differs butlittle from the more common Red Crossbill, and its nest is stated tobe much similar. Like its congeners it is chiefly a winter visitant inthis country, and seldom observed except in severe cold weather,and then in isolated parties ; nor does it associate in any way withthe other species of Crossbill. It appears to make its general homein the desolate evergreen wooiis of more northern latitudes extendingfrom Maine towards the Rocky Mountains, and has been observedin Alaska. In winter and early spring it is commonly met with in THE O. & O. SEMI-ANNUAL. 21 Manitoba and other north-western portions of the Canadian Dom-inion, and some nests havebeen found in northern NewEngland. The chief difference be-tween it and the Red Cross-bill is that the wings arecrossed with bars of a whiteWHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL, SPARROWS AND WARBLERS. BY WILL. N. UOLTOISr, BIDDEPORD, MAINE. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ;Thou hast no sorrow in thy note. No winter in thy year. —Logan. How well this applies to that beautiful fleeting .family, Mntotiltido;the Wood Warblers ! Only with us a comparatively short time eachyear, they yet endear themselves, cheering us as no other bird do not flit around our door-yards ; but have to be visited in theirown haunts, the forest and swamp, and here we can see them in un-restrained freedom. That which is hardest to obtain, we prize most, and it will pay any-one for a tiresome tramp, to have the opportunity of watching andstudying the rarer Warblers, with their gay, restless movements, seldomstill ten seconds at a time, flitting from twig to twig. The more com-mon species are often found in orchards and near to man ; but theyhave more subdued tints and of a more timid air than their wilde
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