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white-winged crossbill † 

• a crossbill, Loxia leucoptera, of eastern North America.

  • 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.