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Cr. S. p. E. K. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL EEPOET. 



Comparative measurements of species. 



t Mounted. 



{ Mounted ; wings broken off. 



CAEPODAOUS PURPUEEUS, Gray. 



Purple Finch. 



Fringilla purpurea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 923. — Lath. Ind, I, 1790, 446. — Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 119 ; 



pi. vii, f. 4.— Ib. V, 181S, 87 ; pi. xlii, f. 3.— Aitd. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 24 : V, 200 ; pi. 4. 

 Haemorrhous purpurea, Swainson, Birds, 11, 1837, 295. 



Erythrospiza purpurea, Bp. List, 1838.— AxiD. Syn. 1839, 125.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 170 ; pi. 196. 

 Carpodacus purpurea, Gray's Genera, 1844- '49. — Bp. Conspectus, 1850, 533. — Bon. & Schleqel, Mon. of Loxiens, 



14, tab. XV. 

 ? Loxia violacea, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1766, 306, 43. (Very uncertain.) 

 Purple finch, Catesbt, Pennant, Lath. Hemp-bird, Bartram. 



Sp. Ch. — Second quill longest ; first shorter than third ; considerably longer than the fourth. Body crimson, palest on the 

 rump and breast, darkest across the middle of back and wing coverts, where the feathers have dusky centres. The red extends 

 below continuously to the lower part of the breast, and in spots to the tibiae. The belly and under tail coverts white, streaked 

 faintly with brown, except in the very middle. Edges of wings and tail feathers brownish red ; lesser coverts like the back. 

 Two reddish bands across the wings, (over the ends of the middle and greater coverts.) Lores dull grayish. Length, 6.25 

 inches ; wing, 3.34 ; tail, 2 50 ; bill above, .46. 



Female olivaceous brown ; brighter on the rump. Bejieath white. All the feathers everywhere streaked with brown, except 

 on the middle of the belly and under coverts a superciliary light stripe. 



Hob. — North America, from Atlantic to the high central plains. 



