. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . r when the snow weighs down the branches ofthe evergreens. Several times I have seen them together in such a snow-covered treewith the Red Crossbills, Pine Grosbeaks, and Red-polls. The partially red plumagecontrasts beautifully with the dark green of the pine foliage and the snow that covers it. I kept several of the White-winged Crossbills in a cage, and they took food imme-diately aft
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . r when the snow weighs down the branches ofthe evergreens. Several times I have seen them together in such a snow-covered treewith the Red Crossbills, Pine Grosbeaks, and Red-polls. The partially red plumagecontrasts beautifully with the dark green of the pine foliage and the snow that covers it. I kept several of the White-winged Crossbills in a cage, and they took food imme-diately after being captured. They were very tame, picking pieces of firuit, hemp, andCanary-seed from my hand. They were almost constantly climbing around in the cagelike Parrots, moving up and down on the sides of the cage and hanging and walkingwith the same ease, head downward, on the upper side of the wire netting. They didnot seem to suffer from the summers heat, for I kept them about three and severalfour years in perfedl : White-winged NAMES: LOXIA LBUCOPTERA Gmel. (1788). Carvirostra leucoptera Wilson (1811). Tafel XXll -fo o Oo > N , m ■73 O CD C oow CD 7) om S3 c». BLACK ROSY FINCH. 45 DESCRIPTION: Male, adult: Rosy-red; feathers of the back, dark-centred; wings and tail, blackish, theformer with two conspicuous white cross-bars. Bill, horn-color; both mandibles falcate, with crossedpoints. The shade of red varies greatly, but is never bricky or cinnabar, as in the other species ofLoxia.—Female and young: Olive-brown, the feathers dark-centred; rump, safiron or gamboge-yellow; wing-bars, present. Length, to inches; wing, ; tail, inches, forked. BLACK ROSY FINCH, Leucosticte atrata Ridgway. Plate XXII. )ROF. R. Ridgway sends me the following account on this rare and beautiful bird:1^ The first specimen of Aikens Rosy Finch brought to the notice of ornithologistswas obtained September 20, 1870, by the collector of the Un
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