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THE MEALY RED-POLL. 



LlNARIA BOREALIS. 



Fringilla borcalis, Savi. Temminck, Manual Ornith. Vol. 3, p. 264. Audubon, fol. pi. 42. Id. Birds of Am. 



Vol. 3, p. 120, pi. 17S. 

 Linola id. Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, p. 34. 



Characteristics. Frontlet, loral space and throat black ; beneath whitish. Crown, cheeks, 

 flank and rump red. Length, 5j inches. 



Description. Above dusky, streaked with lighter ; the rump quite light-colored. Wings 

 and tail dusky, edged with soiled white, and with two light-colored bands on the wings. Be- 

 neath greyish white, streaked with dusky. Crown crimson. Cheeks, sides of the body, 

 and hind part of the rump pale carmine. Female, with the black on the forehead and throat 

 tinged with brown ; crimson patch on the crown smaller ; no red on the sides and rump. 



Length, 5 "3. Alar extent, 9"0. 



I have never met with this species in this State, where it is doubtless very rare. It has, 

 however, been seen both in this State and in New-Jersey. It is a northern species, common to 

 both continents. In the breeding season, the whole under surface is said to be of rich car- 

 mine. Feeds on berries. Its history incomplete. 



GENUS ERYTHROSPIZA. Bonaparte. 



Bill short, conic, robust, bulging, pointed : dorsal line slightly convex ; tips nearly equal, 

 faintly notched. Tail deeply emarginate. Wings moderate ; the outer four quills longest. 

 Tarsi short, slender. 



THE CRESTED PURPLE FINCH. 



Erythrospiza purpurea, 

 plate lxxii. fig. 163. 



(STATE COLLECTION.) 



Fringilla -purpurea, Gmelin. Purple Finch, Pennant, Arct. Zoology, Vol.2, p. 377. Wilson, Am. Orn. Vol. 1, 

 p. 119, pi. 7, fig. 4 (male) ; Vol. 5, p, 87, pi. 42, fig. 3 (male, winter). 



F. (Coccothraustes) id. Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 114. Audubon, folio pi. 4. 



American Linnet. Nut. Man. Orn. Vol. 1, p. 529. Kirtland, Zool. Ohio, p. 184. Peabody, Mass. Rep. p. 330. 



Erythrocorax, BreHM. 



Erythrospiza id. Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, p. 34. Rich. & Swainson, F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 264, var. ? 

 Audubon, B. of A. Vol. 3, p. 170, pi. 196. 



E. purpurea. Giraud, Birds of Long island, p. 126. 



Characteristics. Crimson ; deepest on the head and throat. Wings and tail dusky. Belly 

 light-colored. Female and yearling male, varied with pale brown and 

 dusky, without crimson; the latter with the rump tinged yellow. Length, 

 six inches. 

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