. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. CassinVs 58. Genus CARPODACUS Kaup. * Adult $ with the red diffuse, belly unstreaked, and edging of wings reddish. Purple Finch. $ crimson, rosy, or purplish-red, most intense on the crown, fading to white on the belly, mixed with dusky streaks on the back; wings and tail dusky, with reddish edgings, and the wing coverts tipped with t
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. CassinVs 58. Genus CARPODACUS Kaup. * Adult $ with the red diffuse, belly unstreaked, and edging of wings reddish. Purple Finch. $ crimson, rosy, or purplish-red, most intense on the crown, fading to white on the belly, mixed with dusky streaks on the back; wings and tail dusky, with reddish edgings, and the wing coverts tipped with the same; lores and feathers all around base of bill hoary. 9 and young with no red — olivaceous-brown, brighter on the rump, the feathers above all with paler edges, producing a streaked appearance; below white, thickly spotted and streaked with olive-brown, except on middle of belly and under tail coverts; obscure whitish superciliary and maxillary lines. Young males show every gradation between these extremes, in gradually assuming the red plumage, and are frequently brownish-yellow or bronzy below. 5f-6J ; wing 3-3^ ; tail 2:^-2J, forked; tarsus | ; middle toe and claw J; bill under J, turgid, with a little ruff of antrorse feathers. Not crested, but the coronal feathers erec- tile. The foregoing description should prevent con- founding young biixls with any of the streaked and spotted sparrows. United States from Atlantic to Pacitic, and somewhat northward in summer; an abundant species, particularly in spring and fall, in ^^°-"5- Biiiof rurpiermch. woods and orchards, generally found in flocks except when breeding; feeds on seeds, buds and blossoms; a delightful songster. Wils., i, 119, pi. 7, f. 4; AuD., iii, 170, pi. 196; Bd., 412; also, O. californicus Bd., 413, Coop., 154, which I cannot distinguish at all purpureus. Cassin's Purple Finch. Similar; the red paler, more streaked with dusky on the upper parts, crown rich crimson in marked contrast; larger; 6^-7; w
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