one THE CASSIN PURPLE FINCH. 
No. 33. 
CASSIN’S PURPER “PENCE 
A. O. U. No. 518. Carpodacus cassinii Baird. 
Synonym.—CAssIN’s FINCH. 
Description.—4Adult male: Crown dull crimson; back and scapulars vinace- 
ous mixed with brownish and sharply streaked with dusky; wings and tail dusky 
with more or less edging of vinaceous; remaining plumage chiefly dull rosy, 
passing into white on belly and crissum; under tail-coverts white streaked with 
dusky. Adult female: Everywhere (save on wings, tail and lower abdomen) 
sharply streaked with dusky, clearly, on a white ground, below ; above on an olive- 
gray or olive-buffy ground. Jimmature male: Like female in plumage and indis- 
tinguishable. Length of adult 6.50-7.00 (165.1-177.8) ; wing 3.62 (92) ; tail 2.56 
(65); bill .50 (12.6) ; tarsus .73 (18.5). 
Recognition Marks.—Sparrow size: red of crown contrasting with back dis- 
tinctive as compared with C. p. californicus; general streakiness of female (and 
male in more common plumage). 
Nesting.—Nest: of twigs and rootlets lined with horse-hair, string, etc., 
placed in pine or fir tree well out from trunk. Eggs: 4 or 5, colored as in succeed- 
ing species; a little larger. Av. size .85 x .60 (21.6x 15.2). Season: June; one 
or two broods according to altitude. 
General Range.—Western United States from the eastern base of the Rocky 
Mountains west to (but not including?) the Pacific coast district; north to British 
Columbia; south over plateau region of Mexico; found chiefly in the mountains. 
Range in Washington.—At least coextensive with pine timber in eastern 
Washington; found to summit of Cascades but westerly range imperfectly made 
out. 
Authorities.—[“Cassin’s Purple Finch,” Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T. 1884 
(1885), 22.] Carpodacus cassuu, Dawson, Auk, Vol. XIV. 1897, p. 177. D'. J. 
Specimens.—Prov. C. 
CASSIN’S FINCH is the bird of the eastern Cascades and the timbered 
foothills of northern Washington. While ranging higher than other finches, 
it shares with them an inclination to urban life, and a full realization of the 
advantages of gardens and cultivated patches. At Stehekin I saw a flock of 
them gleaning crumbs as complacently as sparrows, in the yard at the rear 
of the hotel. At Chelan they haunt the lonesome pine trees which still dot 
the shores of the lake, seemingly regarding their gnarled recesses as citadels 
where alone they may be safe from the terrors of the open country. 
As the bird-man lay sprawling in the grateful shadow of one of these 
grim sentinels, munching a noonday lunch, and remonstrating with Providence 
at the unguarded virtues of the all-crawling ant, he spied a last year’s Oriole’s 
nest hanging just over his head, while an accommodating Cassin Finch 
