. The land-birds and game-birds of New England : with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . Birds. 174 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIKDS He finally woke up a solitary Pine Grosbeak, who uttered Ma call-note several times, and remained in the neighborhood until , when he perched on the top of a pine, and sang for sev- eral minutes. His song was sweet and very much like that of the Purple Finch, but was now and then interrupted by his ordinary ; III. CARPODACUS (A) PDRPDREUS. Purple Finch. " ; (In New England, a common resident in summe
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England : with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . Birds. 174 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIKDS He finally woke up a solitary Pine Grosbeak, who uttered Ma call-note several times, and remained in the neighborhood until , when he perched on the top of a pine, and sang for sev- eral minutes. His song was sweet and very much like that of the Purple Finch, but was now and then interrupted by his ordinary ; III. CARPODACUS (A) PDRPDREUS. Purple Finch. " ; (In New England, a common resident in summer, but only occasional in winter.) (a). About six inches long. Crown-feathers erectile. $, carmine, of very different shades and intensities in different speci- mens. Back dusky-streaked; belly, almost white. Edgings of the wings, reddish. ? , oli- vaceous-brown, and streaked, except on the belly, which as Fig. 8. Purple rinch (i). ^gll as a superciliary line is white. Wings and tail like those of the male, but with no reddish. (6). The nest is usually composed of fine rootlets, weed- stalks, and grasses, being lined with hairs, but its materials vary greatly in some cases. It is placed in a pine, cedar, or- chard-tree, or occasionally a bush or hedge, from five to twenty feet above the ground. The eggs of each set are four or flve^ and average "TSX^SS of an inch or more. They are of a light greenish blue, marked rather thinly and chiefly at the larger end, with specks, blotches, and scrawls, of very faint lilac, and of blackish. The first set is laid about the first of June or earlier, and a second one often appears in July. (c). The Purple Finches are well known on account of their charming song, and the gay or brilliant coloring in summer of the males, who attract, especially if in flocks, the attention of many a person who is habitually inobsei-vant. A few pass the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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