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O. S. p. E. K. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



Comparative measurements of species. 



• No label. 



f Moimiod. 



t Mounted ; wm"s broken off. 



CAEPODACUS PURPUKEUS, Gray. 



Purple Finch. 



FringiUd purpurea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 923.— La h. Ind. I, 1790, 446.— "Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 119 ; 



pi. vii, f. 4.— Ib. V, 1812, 87 ; pi. xl i,f. 3.— Abd. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 24 : V, 200 ; pi. 4. 

 Haemorrhous purpurea, Swainson, Birds, II, 1837, 295. 



ErythrospHa purpurea, B . List, 1838.— Arc. Syn. 1839, 1 .— Ib. Bifds Amer. Ill, 1841, 170; pi. 19G. 

 Cai-podacus purpurea, Gray's Genera, 1844-'49. — p. Conspectus, 1850, 533. — Bon. & Schlegel, Mon. of Lozieus, 



14, tab. .XV. 

 'i Loxia violacta, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1766, 306, 43. (Very uncertain.) 

 Purple finch, Catesbt, Pennant, Lath. Hemp-bird, Bartram. 



Sp. Ch — Second <]uill long st; lirst shorter than third ; considerably longer than the fourth. Body crimson, palest on the 

 rump and breast, darkest across the middle of back and wing coverts, whore the feathers have dusky centres. The red extends 

 below continuously to the lower part of the breast, and in spots to the tibiae. The belly and under tail coverts white, streaked 

 faintly with brown, except in the very middle. Edges of wings and tail feathers brownish red ; lesser coverts like the back. 

 Two reddish bands across the wings, (over the ends of the middle and greater coverts.) Lores dull grayish. Length, G.25 

 Inches ; wing, 3.34 ; tail, 2 50 ; bill above, .46. 



Female olivaceous brown ; brighter on the rump. Beneath white. All the feathers everywhere streaked with brown, except 

 on the middle of the belly and under coverts a superciliary light stripe. 



Hab. — North America, from Atlantic to the high central plains. 



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