. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 204 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. - CURVIROSTRA LEU COPTERA. â Fio. 142. Turton, 8yst. i. p. 515. lOXTA LEVCOPTERjI. â auiiLtn.* Loxia leucoptera, Bonap. Synop. p. 117. This is a much rarer speciefl than the preceding; though found frequenting the same place8::;nd at the same ^^^^j/^Sce bid ever, from the former in the deep black wings and Uil, the large Dea Twhiteon the wing, the dark crimson ^
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 204 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. - CURVIROSTRA LEU COPTERA. â Fio. 142. Turton, 8yst. i. p. 515. lOXTA LEVCOPTERjI. â auiiLtn.* Loxia leucoptera, Bonap. Synop. p. 117. This is a much rarer speciefl than the preceding; though found frequenting the same place8::;nd at the same ^^^^j/^Sce bid ever, from the former in the deep black wings and Uil, the large Dea Twhiteon the wing, the dark crimson ^f J.^l.^y^^^^feJ n and more slender conformation of body. The bircl represenitu ii Sg. ?42 w sliot in the neighborhood of the Great Pine Sw^"'P> ^^ the moMth of September, by my friend Mr. Ainsley, a German naturalist collector in this country for the emperor of Austria. The ?nSua of this species mentioned by Turton and Latham, had evSy been shot ?n monlting time. The present specimen was a ^l^il^wKJ^^S^cSKfive inches and a quarter loiig^ and eiciit indies and a quarter in extent; wings and tail, deep black, the forme cossed with two broad bars of white; general color of the Surname dark crimson, partially spotted with dusky ; lores and front et, narbSvn vent, white streaked with black; bill, a brown horn color, ff mSiercrossing each other as in the F^jf'"f f PT^^i^ lower sometimes bending to the right, sometimes to tj« J^ "^"f'^ to the left in the male, and to the right in the female, of the Anie^an Crossbill. The female of the present species will be >n*'?'*"ff J,^^^ soon as a good specimen can be obtained, with such addiUonal facta relative to their manners as may tiien be ascertained. mwmmmmM cies these tain ponocfs and in various a^^^^^^f 3^^'^^^^^li;." n^;;;aylMricoked upon ig found in another ts Irom tne minuie-oooK ui u.,; .......»"..-â¢-_ ;;'^°',, ' â j-yjl nf OranffOffrove, near Bcllasl, m a IcUer to Mr
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