284 AVES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 



473. CARPOD ACUS ^ Kaup. {KOfmos, fruit ; Saxos, biting.) 



894. C. purpureus (Gmelin). Purple Finch. Everywhere 

 3treaky; ^ flushed with red, most intense on the crown, fading 

 below and behind; 9 olive brown and streaky, with no red; bill 

 stout. L. 6. W. 3^. T. 2^. N. Am., a sweet singer. (Lat., 

 purple, which the bird is not.) 



474. LOXIA Linnffius. (Xo|of, crooked.) 

 a. Wing with white. 



895. L. leucoptera Gmelin. White Winged Crossbill. 

 $ rose red ; two white wing bars ; scapulars black ; g brownish 

 olive, speckled with dusky ; rump yellow. L. 6^. W. 3J. T. 2^. 

 N. N. Am., S. in winter, with the next, less common; variable. 

 (XeuKof, white; Trrepov, wing.) 



aa. Wing with no white. 



896. L. ourvirostra L. Red Crossbill. ^ brick-red; wings 

 dusky, unmarked; 9 brownish, washed with greenish yellow. 

 L. 6. W. 3^. T. 2^. Northern regions, about pine woods; S. 

 in winter, sometimes in large flocks, to Tenn. and Va. (£«.) 

 The rather small form in E. U. S. is var. minor Brehm. The sin- 

 gular bill is adapted for opening nuts. (Lat., curve-bill.) 



475. LEXTCOSTICTE Swainson. (KevKos, white ; otiictos, 

 spotted.) 



897. L. tephrocotia Swainson. Cinnamon-brown; head more 

 or less ashy gray ; nasal tufts white ; quills dusky ; tail coverts 

 edged with rose pink in adult. L. 6. W. 4. T. 3. Rocky Mts,, 

 E. to Iowa, (recfipos, gray ; oSs, ear.) 



476. ACANTHIS Bechstein. (dKavBis, thistle-bird.) 



a. Crown red in both sexes, crimson in Ji lustrous brownish-red in ? ; 

 chin blacliish ; no yellow. 



898. A. hornemanni (Holbbll). Greenland Redpoll. Sides 

 and rump scarcely streaked ; colors very pale. ^ with breast 

 merely pinkish. L. 5. W. 3. T. 2^. Greenland ; the small var. 

 exilipes (fioues) S. to N. U. S. in winter. (To J. W. Hornemann.) 



899. A. linaria (L.). Red Poll Linnet. Throat, breast 

 and rump rosy in ^ ; much streaked above and on sides ; rump 



I In the vicinity of Carpodaeics belongs the Old World genus ; — 

 Passer Brisson. P. domesticus (L.). Edropean House Sparrow. (J chestnut 

 brown above, thickly streaked ; ashy below ; throat, lores and chin black ; 9 duller, 

 ■without black ; feet small, L, 6, W, 2J. T. 2^. Introduced from Europe ; abun- 

 dant In all towns E,, a nuisance unfortunately long past the possibility of abatement. 



P. monUmus (L,). Boropean Tree Sparrow, Smaller ; J with black of throat 

 not continued over chest ; top of head liver-brown, L, Sj. W. 2|. T. i\. Europe, 

 naturalized about at Louis. 



