228 PURPLE FINCH. 



tinged with yellow, particularly on the rump, where it was 

 brownish yellow; from above the eye, backwards, passed a 

 streak of white, and another more irregular one from the lower 

 mandible: feathers of the crown narrow, rather long, and gen- 

 erally erected, but not so as to form a crest; nostrils and base 

 of the bill covered with reflected brownish hairs; eye dark ha- 

 zel; wings and tail dark blackish brown, edged with olive; first 

 and second row of coverts tipt with pale yellow; chin white; 

 breast pale cream, marked with pointed spots of deep olive 

 brown; belly and vent white; legs brown. This bird, with sev- 

 eral others marked nearly in the same manner, was shot, April 

 twenty-fifth, while engaged in eating the buds from the beech 

 tree. 



