Plate CXCVII. Male, Female, and Young.
Male dull light red, inclining to vermilion; the wings and tail
blackish-brown, the feathers narrowly margined with dull red. Female
with the upper parts greyish-brown, tinged with green, the rump dull
greenish-yellow, the sides of the head and neck of the same colour as
the back, the lower parts pale greyish-yellow, brighter on the fore
part of the breast, wings and tail as in the male, but the feathers
edged with dull yellowish. Young with the central part of the feathers
greyish-brown, the edges yellowish-grey, the upper parts thus
appearing spotted, the lower streaked with dusky. Young males vary in
the tints of the plumage from yellowish-green to orange and vermilion.
_Male_, 7, 10.
From Maryland eastward and northward, to lat. 52. Breeds in
Pennsylvania, New York, and the north-eastern States to Nova Scotia.
Common. Migratory.
American Crossbill, Curvirostra americana, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
iv. p. 44.
Loxia curvirostra, Bonap. Syn. p. 117.
Common Crossbill, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 583.
Common Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p.
559; v. v. p. 511.