Family Fringillidce Purple Finch 121 



may be found singing at any part of the day, 

 perched usually at the top of a high tree. Song 

 begins in the neighborhood of New York any time 

 from the first week in March to the fourth week in 

 April, and continues until mid-July. In the fall a 

 weak, desultory song may be heard during the 

 month of October, and often in late September. 



His song approaches an ecstasy, and with the excep- 

 tion of the winter wretfs is the most rapid and copious 

 strain to be heard in these woods. It is quite destitute 

 of the trills and the liquid ', silvery, bubbling notes that 

 characterize the wren's ; but there runs through it a 

 rounded, nicely modulated whistle, very sweet and very 

 pleasing. BURROUGHS. 



