174 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS 
He finally woke up a solitary Pine Grosbeak, who uttered his 
call-note several times, and remained in the neighborhood until 
6.15, when he perched on the top of a pine, and sang for sev- 
eral minutes. His song was sweet and very much like that of 
the Purple Finch, but was now and then interrupted by his 
ordinary cries.” 
Ill. CARPODACUS 
(A) purPuREUS. Purple Finch. ‘“* Linnet.” 
(In New England, a common resident in summer, but only 
occasional in winter.) 
(a). About six inches long. 
Crown-feathers erectile. ¢, 
carmine, of very different shades 
and intensities in different speci- 
mens. Back dusky-streaked ; 
belly, almost white. Edgings 
of the wings, reddish.  Q, oli- 
vaceous-brown, and _ streaked, 
except on the belly, which as 
Fig. 8. Purple Finch (<). well as a superciliary line is 
white. Wings and tail like 
those of the male, but with no reddish. 
(b). The nest is usually composed of fine rootlets, weed- 
stalks, and grasses, being lined with hairs, but its materials 
vary greatly in some cases. It is placed in a pine, cedar, or- 
chard-tree, or occasionally a bush or hedge, from five to twenty 
feet above the ground. The eggs of each set are four or five, 
and average ‘75°55 of an inch or more. They are of a 
light greenish blue, marked rather thinly and chiefly at the 
larger end, with specks, blotches, and scrawls, of very faint 
lilac, and of blackish. The first set is laid about the first of 
June or earlier, and a second one often appears in July. 
(c). The Purple Finches are well known on account of their 
charming song, and the gay or brilliant coloring in summer of 
the males, who attract, especially if in flocks, the attention of 
many a person who is habitually inobservant. A few pass the 
