24 BRIGHT FEATHERS. j “4 
RANGE OF Thtts,PURPLE FINCH. 
Regarding the range of thj$ bird, } can do no better than refer 
to Dr. Coues. This writer, in Pyerds of the North-west, gives the species 
habitation from the Atlantic to thel Pacific, excepting, probably, the South- 
ern Rocky Mountain region, a it is replaced by Cassin’s Purple 
finch or Burion. North’to the Sas- 
katchewan and Labrador—Winlterjng in the Southern States. 
Finch and the Crimson-fronted 
EGG OF THE PURPLE FINCH. 
