File:Matthew Paris 1251 Sketch Of Crossbill Eating Fruit.jpg
Matthew Paris recorded in the text that the birds were "a little bigger than Larks, and eat the pippins of the apples [pomorum grana] but no other part of them... They had the parts of the beak crossed [cancellatas] by which they divided the apples as with a forceps or knife." The birds had rarely been seen before, but irrupted into Britain in large numbers in that year, causing damage to orchards.
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