Cross-beak. World English Historical Dictionary

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= CROSS-BILL.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 242/1. The Crosbeak is a thick and short Billed Bird.

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1789.  G. White, Selborne, II. vii. (1853), 176. Considerable flocks of crossbeaks.

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