. 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. 128 FRINGILLIDjE, finches, etc. GEN. 57, 58. q 57. Genus PYRRHULA Auctorum. )^'' Oassin's BuUfincli. $ above clear ashy gray, below cinnamon gray, rump and under wing and tail coverts white ; wings and tail, crown, chin and face black; outer tail feathers with a white patch, greater wiug coverts tipped and primaries edged with whitish : liill b
. 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. 128 FRINGILLIDjE, finches, etc. GEN. 57, 58. q 57. Genus PYRRHULA Auctorum. )^'' Oassin's BuUfincli. $ above clear ashy gray, below cinnamon gray, rump and under wing and tail coverts white ; wings and tail, crown, chin and face black; outer tail feathers with a white patch, greater wiug coverts tipped and primaries edged with whitish : liill black, feet dusky ; 9 unknown. Length 6J ; wing 3J ; tail 3|-. Nulato, Alaska (DaU), only one specimen known, originally described as a va- riety of P. coccinea of Europe, but later determined to be distinct. Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad. 1869, 316, pi. 29, f. 1; Newton, Ibis, 1870, 251; Tkistram, Ibis, 1871, 231. 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 pr
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