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the body of the male is bright yellow, wings and 

 tail black ; the female is all over olive brown. 



LOCATION. Found throughout the United 

 States in summer ; late in the autumn, they mi- 

 grate south. 



PURPLE FINCH, OR RED LINNET. 



The birds of the United States may be divided 

 into two general classes, summer birds and win- 

 ter birds. The first class visit us in the spring, 

 from the regions of the South, for the purpose of 

 incubation; that duty being performed, the young 

 fledged, and the old birds recruited, and their old 

 feathers replaced by new, they leave us for more 

 congenial climes to spend their winter, and re- 

 turn again in the spring. The second class hav- 

 ing performed the same duty in the Northern re- 

 gions, visit us to escape the rigors of the winter, 

 again to return north in the spring. This bird's 

 migrations do not extend so far north as some 

 of our visitors, who have been found as far north 

 as has yet been explored. The Purple Pinch is 

 a strong and vigorous bird, and a very good song- 

 ster. They have a very fine warbling note, con- 

 tinued to a considerable length, not unlike a Ca- 



