Loxia

Quick meaning: Loxia is a noun meaning crossbill (finch of genus Loxia).

Meaning

crossbill (finch of genus Loxia).

Example Sentences

There were parrots, and paroquets, and orioles, and blue jays, and beautiful loxias, both of the scarlet and azure-colored species.

Huckleberries form a portion of the food of many birds, as well as of various quadrupeds. Of the former, I may mention in particular the Wild Turkey, several species of Grouse, the Wild Pigeon, the Turtle-dove, some Loxias, and several Thrushes.

It produces quantities of gum, which is conſidered by the natives as a peculiarly delicate ſpecies of food, the leaves and lower points of the branches ſeem to conſtitute the principal aliment of the camelopardalis; and from the extent of its boughs, and the ſmoothneſs of the trunk, it affords a ſafe ſhelter to the loxia, a ſpecies of gregarious bird, againſt the tribe of ſerpents and other reptiles, which would otherwiſe deſtroy its eggs.

Word Forms

• loxias

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crossbill, crossbeak, silverbill, palila, locustella, linnet.

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