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highest trees in the neighborhood. His song, in 

 a general way, is a warble. Mr. Frank M. 

 Chapman says of the song of the eastern Pur- 

 ple Finch (not unlike our own) : " His song is a 

 sweet, flowing warble, music as natural as the 

 rippling of the mountain brook." 



PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Male : two years old, 

 head, throat and breast, bright wine-red ; back, brown, 

 with a pinkish tinge ; rump, more like head ; abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts, white. 



Female : Above, olive-grayish, somewhat streaked ; 

 breast, whitish, streaked with brown ; abdomen, white. 



Mostly a summer resident. 



THE PINE SISKIN. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION : 



Brindle-brown, with yellow bars on wings. 

 Length, 5 inches. 



Found in the spring about our roadsides, and upon 

 our evergreens, near and in open places, even in cities 

 and towns. 



As soon as the first dandelions are blown, and 

 the green grass is flecked with their winged 

 seeds, you will see flocks of little grayish-brown 

 birds not unlike Sparrows in their color, but with 



