408 SPARROWS AND FINCHES. 



Great Plains of N. A. from Kansas north to 

 Saskatchewan; south in winter to Mex. and 

 casually east to coast of N. E. and Long 

 Island. Song, short, shrill, and sweet, 

 usually given in flight. 



463. MCCOWN LONGSPUR. 

 Size of last, tail shorter, flight undula- 

 ting, white beneath; front of crown, crescent 

 on breast, black; gray above, broadly 

 streaked with black; outer portion of tail, 

 white, broadly tipped with black. Female, 

 without black on head or breast; buffy 

 beneath. Breeding range and southward 

 migration much as in Smith Longspur; 

 casual east to 111. 



464. PURPLE FINCH. 



Small, 6; wings, long; tail, forked; bill, 

 short and thick, brown; crimson-lake obscu- 

 rely streaked with darker on breast, fig. 323. 

 Female and young, brown above, white 

 below, heavily streaked with dusky; a 

 prominent white line over eye; adult male 



