white-winged crossbill†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a crossbill, Loxia leucoptera, of eastern North America.

Quotations

1908

White-winged cross bill.

1956

White-winged Crossbill [is also called] spruce bird (As feeding on the seeds of that tree. Nfld.).

1966

[Caption] White-winged Crossbill . . . One of the finch family. Crossed bill lets them open evergreen cones.