FINCH. 139 



The female is more dull ; bead and neck ash-colour ; under parts 

 of the body paler than the upper ; and a tinge of ash through the 

 whole of the plumage. 



Inhabits the Bahama Islands, Jamaica, and other parts of the 

 West Indies, and South America. Manners unknown. 



129— PURPLE FINCH. 



Fringilla purpurea, Ind. Om. i. 446. Gm. Lin. i. 923. Shaw's Zool. ix. 507. 

 Pyrrhula Caroliuensis violacea, Bris. iii. 324. Id. 8vo. i. 399. 

 Bouvreuil violet de la Caroline, Bvf. iv. 395. 



Purple Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 275. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 258. Cates. Car. i. pi. 41. Bartr. 

 Trav. 289. Am.Orn.i. pi. 7. f. 4. male. Id. v. p. 87. pi. 42. f. 3. young male. 



SIZE of a Chaffinch ; length six inches; breadth ten. General 

 colour of the plumage crimson, with a tinge of purple or violet; the 

 rump brighter ; the rest of the plumage with darker blotch ings; 

 middle of the belly, thighs, and vent, dusky white ; quills and tail 

 brown, with pale margins; tail forked. 



The female is rather smaller ; general colour brown, except the 

 breast, which is spotted with white like a Thrush. In the Amer. 

 Om. the female is said to be brown olive, streaked with dusky black ; 

 the head seamed laterally with whitish lines ; breast whitish ;* below 

 the hind part of the ear feathers two streaks of white; quills and 

 tail feathers edged with dull brown, instead of white. Perhaps these 

 two descriptions of the female may be owing to difference of age, 

 unless one of them may be a male in imperfect plumage. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania, Carolina, and Georgia ; comes to the first 

 in September and October, and feeds on the seeds of Button wood,t 

 Juniper, and Cedar. As the season becomes severe, proceeds to 

 Georgia, and returns in April : assembles sometimes in small flights 



* Such an one in Vol. v. pi. 42, as a young male, in this the breast is spotted with brown 

 dashes. f Conocarpus erecta. 



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