. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. FINCHES HOUSE FINCH Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (.S"(7r) Other Names.— Crimson-frontctl Finch ; Red-headed Linnet: Linnet: Burion ; Red-liead. General Description.— Length. 5'.. inches. L^pper parts, brownish-gray : under parts, white streaked with brown. Bill, shorter than head, conical, and thick; tail, about -54 length of wing, nearly even. Color.—Adult Male: Forehead (broadly), broad stripe above the ear ( from forehead to back of head), check region, throat (sometimes upper part of chest also), and rump, bright red; rest of up
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. FINCHES HOUSE FINCH Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (.S"(7r) Other Names.— Crimson-frontctl Finch ; Red-headed Linnet: Linnet: Burion ; Red-liead. General Description.— Length. 5'.. inches. L^pper parts, brownish-gray : under parts, white streaked with brown. Bill, shorter than head, conical, and thick; tail, about -54 length of wing, nearly even. Color.—Adult Male: Forehead (broadly), broad stripe above the ear ( from forehead to back of head), check region, throat (sometimes upper part of chest also), and rump, bright red; rest of upper parts, hair-brown tinged with red; the wings and tail, dusky with pale grayish brown and brownish gray edgings; under parts ( throat, etc.) dull u'hitish. thickly streaked %cith hair-brown, the breast sometimes tinged with pale red; bill, dark horn-brownish; iris, brown. Adl'lt Fem.\le: Similar to the adult male, but without any red, that of the upper parts replaced by the general hair-hrown, that of throat, etc., by streaks of white and .grayish brown, like rest of inider parts. Nest and Eggs.— Xest : Usually about houses, but located anywhere in trees, bushes, sagebrush, hay stacks, old boxes, tin cans, but always near water; care- lessly or compactly constructed of any handy material, grass, string, paper, rags, straw, bark strips, or plant fibers. Eggs : 3 to 6, bluish white or pale greenish blue, sparingly marked with spots and lines of sepia or black; rarely unmarked. Distribution.— Western Lhiited States and northern Mexico; north to southern Wyoming, southern Idaho, and Oregon ; south to Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, north- ern Chihuahua, northern Sonora, and northern Lower California; east to western border of the Great Plains (middle Texas to western Kansas and southeastern Wyoming). The House Finch or Red-headed through many parts of the West is the com- monest bird about the dooryard. It is even more abundant and more familiar than the Robin t
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