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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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t of the middle toe nearly as long as that of the first. Plumage soft, full,and blended. Two tufts of bristly feathers at the base of the upper man-dible directed forwards. Wings of moderate length, pointed, the outer threeprimaries longest, the first generally exceeding the rest. Tail short, dis-tinctly emarginate. Roof of the mouth concave, with three ridges, of whichthe median is much smaller; tongue deeper than broad, at the end oblong,obtuse, concave above, and horny; oesophagus dilated into a very large crop;stomach roundish, muscular, with the epithelium rugous; intestine of mode-rate length; coeca very small. THE COMMON CROSSBILL. Loxia curvirostra, Linn. PLATE CC.—Male, Female, and Young. This species I have found more abundant in Maine, and in the Britishprovinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, than any where else.Although I have met with it as early as the month of August in the GreatPine Forest of Pennsylvania, I have never seen its nest. Many persons in N^ttO PI 200.
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&5 /J J,,./,,/-,,,, /■/;j/•:/..; ;.,//, :/:,„».■./.( v;< ■/,■ ■/ :, ., .,/,,/ THE COMMON CROSSBILL. 187 the State of Maine assured me that they had found it on pine trees in themiddle of winter, and while the earth was deeply covered with snow. Thepeople employed in cutting pine timber at that season, when it is easier toremove the logs to the rivers, in which they are subsequently floated whenthe ice melts, have very frequently told me, that on felling a tree they havecaught the young Crossbills, which had been jerked out of their nest.Several of my acquaintances in that district promised to send me nests, eggs,and young; but as yet, I am sorry to say, none of them have reached me.While at Labrador I was much disappointed at not finding a single bird ofthis species, although the White-winged Crossbill was tolerably abundantthere; and in Newfoundland matters were precisely the same. The Crossbill lives in flocks, composed apparently of several families, andis an

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