Fig) GEN Wee El. 
ENGT H five inches and a half. Bill lead-colour: between 
that and the eye, and the forehead, yellow: on the head 
three black ftripes: behind the eye another: fides of the head 
whitifh : chin white : all the upper parts like the Linnet in co- 
Jour ; middle of each feather very dark: wing coverts and tail 
plain brown, and fomewhat cuneiform: quills dufky: the breaft 
blue grey : belly very pale: legs pale brown. 
One of thefe was fhot at New York, in May. in the collection 
of Major Davies. 
‘Le Bouvreuil violet de la Caroline, Bri/. orxz. iii. p. 324. N° 8.—Buf, oi/. iv. 
P- 395- 
Purple Finch, Catefo. Car.i. pl. 41.—<ArG. Zool. 
GIZE of a Chaffinch: length five inches two-thirds: colour 
of the plumage violet: the quills brown within: and the 
belly white: the tail is a trifle forked. 
The female is all over brown, except the breaft, which is 
{potted with white like a Thrufh. 
Thefe are found in Carolina, appearing firft in November: af- 
-femble in fmall flights, and retire on the approach of winter : 
during their ftay live on the Fumiper-berries; they alfo deftroy 
the buds of fruit-trees. 
Nn Fringilla 
275 
8 
38. 
STRIPED- 
HEADED F. 
Descriptions 
Piack. 
39- 
PURPLE F. 
DescriPTion. 
FEMALE. 
PLACE. 
