ferred from that defcribed by him in having all the tail feathers
fpotted with white at the ends; probably his was either a hen or
.a young bird.
The fize is a little reduced in the engraving, in order to get
it within the compafs of the plate.
W HITE WINGED CROSS-BILL.
Latham's Synoffis, vol. iii. p. 108. No. 2.
<c The fize of a goldfinch : the bill is of a dufky horn colour:
noftrils covered with 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, back, and under parts, are whitilh, deeply margined
with crimfon; and, as fome parts 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 Ihoulder, pa-fling obliquely
backwards, and a fecond bar, or rather fpot, of the fame below
that, but only the inner half: the fecond quills are each of them
tipped with white: the tail black : legs brown.
“ I have received this both from Hudforis-Bay and New-Tork.”
The bird I have figured differs from Mr. Latham’s in fome particulars
; it wants the crimfon colour, and the brown bar between
■ the eyes, fo that it is certainly a hen, differing from the cock exactly
as in the common crofs-bill kind.
Mine was fhot at Montague-IJland, on the North-Weji Coajl of
America,
PATA