making their nests of small twigs and rootlets, 

 lin.ed with fine grasses and lichens. During tlie 

 latter part of May or June they lay three or 

 four eggs, which have a 

 ground color of light 

 greenish blue, spotted and 

 Hplaslied with darlc brown, 

 and with fainter markings 

 of lilac. Size 1.00 x .70. 

 Pine Grosbeaks have been 

 separated into the follow- 

 ing sub-species, the chief 

 distinction between them being in their 

 ranges. The nesting habits and eggs of all 

 are alike. 



51.5a. Rocky Mount.mn Pine Grosbeak. 

 Pinicola enuclcator monidnti. 



Range. — Rocky Mountain region from New 

 Mexico to Montana. 



PERCHING BIRDS 



iiiT'onish lilne 



515b. California Pine Grosbeak. 

 cola enucleator calif ornica. 



Pin 



Finch 



Purple 

 Range. — Higher parts of the Sierra Nevadas in California. 



515c. Alaskjv Pine Grosbeak. Pinicola enucleator alascensi.s. 



Range. — Interior of Northwest America from Alaska South to British Col- 

 umbia. 



515d. Kadiak Pine Grosbeak. Pinicola enucleator flammula. 

 Range. — Kadiak Island and the southern coast of Alaska. 



[5l6.] Cassin's Bullfinch. Pyrrhula cassini. 

 Range. — Northern Asia; accidental in Alaska. 



517- Purple Finch. Carpodacus purpiireus pnrpureus. 



Range. — North America east of the plains, breeding 

 from the Middle States onrth to Labrador and Hudson Bay; 

 winters in the United States. 



These sweet songsters are quite abund- _„,.-,,.. 



ant in New England in the summer, but _.,fV ■'; ., 

 more so north of our borders. While 

 they breed sometimes in trees in orch- 

 ards, I have nearly always found their 

 nests in evergreens, usually about three- 

 fourths of the way up. The nests are 

 made of fine weeds and grasses and lined 



jt^'^ni^^li lilue 



61Bb— B17a 



with horse hair. The eggs, which are- usually laid in June, 

 are greenish blue, spotted with dark brownish; size 

 .S5x,65. 



517a. California Purple 



Finch. Carpodacus purpureus (-(dif amicus. 



Range. — Pacific coast, breeding from central California 

 to British Columbia and wintering throughout California. 



The nesting habits and eggs of this darker colored 

 yariety are just like those of the last, 



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