PERCHING BIRDS 



■ tSf^;^sw»4ii ■;•' s 



(Trccnish liliie 



making their nests of small twigs and rootlets, 

 lined with fine grasses and lichens. During the 

 latter part of May or June they lay three or 



four eggs, whirh have a 



ground color of light 



greenish hlue, spotted and 



splaslied with dark brown. 



and with fainter markings 



of lilac. Size 1.00 x .70. 



Pine Grosbeaks have been 



separated into the follow- 

 ing sub-species, the chief 

 distinction between them being in their 

 ranges. The nesting habits and eggs of all 

 are alike. 



515a. Rocky Mountain Pine Grosbeak. 

 Pinicola evncleaior montana. 



Range. — Rocky Mountain region from New 

 Mexico to Montana. 



515b. California Pine Grosbeak. Pini 



cola cmicleator calif ornicn. Purple Finch 



Range. — Higher parts of the Sierra Nevadas in California. 



515c. Alaska Pine Grosbeak. Pinicola enucleatnr alascensift. 



Range. — Interior of Northwest America from Alaska south to British Col- 

 umbia. 



515d. Kadiak Pine Grosbeak. Pinicola enucleafor fiammula. 

 Range. — Kadiak Island and the southern coast of Alaska. 



[51 6.] Cassin's Bullfinch. Pyrrhula cassini. 

 Range. — Northern Asia; accidental in Alaska. 



517- Purple Finch. Carpodacus pnrpureus purpureus. 



Range. — North America east of the plains, breeding 

 from the Middle States onrth to Labrador and Hudson Bay; 

 winters in the United States. 



These sweet songsters are quite abund- 

 ant in New England in the summer, but 

 more so north of our borders. Whilf 

 they breed sometimes in trees in orch- 

 ards. I have nearly always found their 

 nests in evergreens, usually about three- 

 fourths of the way up. The nests are 

 made of fine weeds and grasses and lined Grpemsh blue 

 with horse hair. The eggs, which are usually laid in June, 

 are greenish blue, spotted with dark brownish; size 

 .85 X .65. 



517a. California Purple 



Finch. Carpodacus purpureus californicus. 



Range. — Pacific coast, breeding from central California 

 to British Columbia and wintering throughout California. 



The nesting habits and eggs of this darker colored 

 variety are just like those of the last. 



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515b — 517a 



