PURPLE, AND LAPLAND FINCH. 



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Inhabits New Tork. Arrives there in Jpril. Is very frequent Place. 



among the Red Cedars, and Ihifts moll nimbly around the ftems. 

 Bl. Mus. — A bird of this fpecies, or nearly related, is defcribed by 

 Dodor Pallas, under the name of Frhigilla rofea * ; which, he fays, 

 frequents lake Baikal, and the country to the north of that water. jj, ^^j^^ 



Purple Finch, Ca/?/2y,i. 41.— ia/^aw, ii. 275. 25B. Purple. 



Le Bouvreuil violet de la Caroline, Brijfon, iii. 324, 



T^ With a purple head and body, with fome dufky mixture, 

 "^ • efpecially the inner webs of the primaries, and the tail : belly 

 white. Female brown, with the breaft fpotted like a Thrufh. 



Appears in Carolina, in November. Feeds on j'uniper-herr'ics. Ih Place. 



Fehruary, deftroys the fwelling buds of fruit trees. 



Fnngilla Lapponica, Lin. Syft. '^i-j.—Faun. Suec. N" 23;. ^^^_ Lapland, 



Fringilla calcarata, Pallas Travels, il. App. 71c. tab. E. 

 Le Grancf Montain, De Buffon, iv. 134. — Latham, ii. 263. 



With a yellow bill, with a dufky point: crown black: from 

 • the bafe of the bill is a white line, paffing under each eye, 

 defcending down the fides of the neck, bending towards the breaft : 

 throat, and fore part of the breaft, black : its fides and belly white: 

 hind part of the neck and back brown, mixed with ruft-color : tail 

 forked ; that, and the wings, dufky, edged with ruft-color j fome of 

 the exterior feathers of the tail marked, near their ends, with a white 

 fpot : legs dark brown : hind claw long, like a Lark's, and almoft 

 ftrait. Length five inches : Extent feven : Weight half an ounce. 



A bird of a hardy conftitution. Inhabits Hudjoti's Bay during p 



winter. Appears in November, and lives among the juniper bufheSo 

 Is called by the natives, Tecurmajhijh. 



* Travels, iii. 6g(j, 



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