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Varieties» BriJJon mentions a variety, which differed in having the
plumage of à blackifh rufous colour, with a red head.
Mr. Pennant alfo fpeaks of two forts, a larger and fmaller;
but fays that thofe figured in Edwards are the fmaller : he cannot
therefore mean the following,kwhich I do not find fpoken of by
any one.
2. 4- 'WHITE-
WINGED-
CROSSBILL.
Description.
Lev. Muf.
n p H E fize of this fmall fpecies is about that of a Goldfinch,
and meafures only five inches and three quarters in length;
The bill, like the other, of a dufky horn-colour : noftrils covered
with reflefted'briftles, of a pale buff-colour ; at the bafe of the
bill, from eye to eye, a ftreak of brown : the feathers on the
head, neck, backhand under parts, are whitifh, deeply margined
with crimfon ; and, as forpe part of the white appears not fully
covered with the crimfon, gives the bird a mottled appearance :
the rump is pale crimfon : the vent dirty white : the wing
is black, marked with a bar of white from the fhoulder, palling
Placs.
obliquely backwards, and a fécond bar, or rather fpot, of the
fame below that, but only in the inner half : the fécond quills are
each of them tipped with white : the tail black : legs brown.
I have received this both from Hudjon’s Bay and New York.
3-
+- PARROTBILLED
GR.
Pl. XLII.
Description-.
Lev, Mu/.
C j l Z E of the Hedge Sparrow : length feven inches. The bill
fafbioned much like that of a Parrot, the Upper mandible being
elongated and curved at the point, the under one (hort ;
colour of the bill pale, with a dufky tip : the head and part of
the