. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 182 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAKD AND EASTERN NEW YOKK. ish; wings and tail brownish; tail rather deeply forked. Ad. 9 and Im. — Upper parts grayish-brown, streaked ; under parts grayish, streaked with brown; line behind eye gray. $ in first breeding season, like the female. Nest, in evergreens, five to thirty feet up. Eggs, blue, spotted at large end with brownish. The Purple
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 182 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAKD AND EASTERN NEW YOKK. ish; wings and tail brownish; tail rather deeply forked. Ad. 9 and Im. — Upper parts grayish-brown, streaked ; under parts grayish, streaked with brown; line behind eye gray. $ in first breeding season, like the female. Nest, in evergreens, five to thirty feet up. Eggs, blue, spotted at large end with brownish. The Purple Finch is a permanent resident of New Eng- land and New York, but of irregular occurrence in winter, sometimes very rare, often rather common. In south- ern New England and the lower Hudson Valley, it is a common migrant in April, and in September and Oc- tober, but few remain through the summer. In New England the summer residents arrive in April and stay until October. They are found, in winter, either in cedar groves or in hard wood, near groves of hop hornbeam, but they are active, rest- less birds, and may be heard anywhere flying overhead. In spring they frequent the same places, but come also to the evergreens about houses, and to the elms in the street, the swelling buds of which they bite off. In summer they build chiefly in conifers, and are numerous in the great northern forests. They utter, when flying, a single sharp ^i^, by which they may be easily identified. Their song is vigorous and musical, a rapid, energetic warble, often lengthened in the height of the mating sea- son to a long, passionate utterance (see Warbling Vireo, p. 135). The male at this season walks, or rather dances, about the female, with wings spread and quivering, repeat- ing the song in a low, pleading tone, or he flies off singing in the air in his loudest tones. A call-note, resembling the Fig. 55. Purple Finch, Female. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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