408 SPARROWS AND FINCHES* 



Great Plains of N. A. from Kansas north to 

 Saskatchewan ; south in winter to Mex. and 

 casually east to coast of ]S. E. and Long 

 Island. Sonf^, short, shrill, and sweet, 

 usually given in ilight. 



463. MCCOWN LONGSPUR. 

 Size of last, tail shorter, flight undula- 

 ting, white beneath; front of crown, crescent 

 on breast, black; gray above, broadly 

 streaked with black; outer portion of tail, 

 white, broadly tipped with black. Female, 

 without black on head or breast; buffy 

 beneath. Breeding range and southward 

 migration much as in Smith Longspur; 

 casual east to 111. 



464. PURPLE FINCH. 



Small, 6; wings, long; tail, forked; bill, 

 short and thick, brown; crimson-lake obscu- 

 rely streaked with darker on breast, fig. 323. 

 Female and young, brown above, white 

 below, heavily streaked with dusky; a 

 l)roininent white line over eye; adult male 



