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2?. Bill not crossed. Purple Finch, (male adult). 

 §§. Wing coverts white tipped, making a white bar in wing. 



?. Red only below and this confined to breast and under wing 

 coverts, one or the other or both ; throat and back black. 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, (male). 

 ??. Some red above as well as below. 



a'. Red above confined to crown and forehead, or rarely also 

 on rump; wing under 3.25. 

 b'. Rump pure white, unstrcaked ; flanks not at all or only 



slightly streaked. Hoary Redpoll, (adult male), 

 b^. Rump and sides distinctly streaked with blackish. 



c'. Length over 5.25; bill short, thick, not very acute • 



sides rather broadly streaked. Greater Redpoll, 

 c . Length under 5.25 ; bill acute, longer ; use your imagin- 

 ation well and you will think you can see a difference 

 in the two following when you have them side by 

 side, 

 d'. Length 4.50 to 5.00 ; bill smaller. Redpoll, (adult 



male), 

 d-. Length 5.00 to 5.25 ; bill larger ; use imagination 

 liberally and you have Holboell's Redpoll. 

 a2. Red covering more or less of the entire upper parts ; wing 

 over 3.25. 

 b'. Bill with mandibles crossed. White-winged Crossbill. 



(adult male), 

 b'-. Bill not crossed. Pine Grosbeak, (adult male). 



Genus HESPERIPHONA Bonaparte. 



514. Ilc.speriphona vesper tina (Coop.). Evening Grosbeak. 



Plumage of adult male : forehead and rump yellow ; ends of secondaries 

 and their coverts white ; wings, tail, crown, belly and scapulars black ; other- 

 wise deep olivaceous. Plumage of adult female : brownish gray above, 

 tinged with yellow at back of head and nape; primaries basally and the sec- 

 ondaries edged with white; tail feathers white terminally on inner web; 

 upper tail coverts white tipped ; wing, upper tail coverts and tail otherwise 

 black; below light brownish gray. Immature plumage: more brownish than 

 that of adult female; bill brownish. Bill of adults yellow. Wing 4.40; 

 culmen 0.76. 



Geog. Dist. — Interior North America, from Manitoba northward; in win- 

 ter southward to the upper Mississippi Valley, Michigan, Ohio, Ontario ; 

 casual in New York and New England. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; a male taken on the Bates College cam- 

 pus, January 10, 1890, (Walter, B. A. C, p. 14). Oxford ; I mounted one taken 



