PERCHING BIRDS 
making their nests of small twigs and rootlets, 
lined with fine grasses and lichens. During the 
latter part of May or June they lay three or 
four eggs, which have a 
ground color of light 
greenish blue, spotted and 
splashed with dark 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. 
Greenish blue 
515a. Rocky Mountain Pine Grosbeak. 
Pinicola enucleator montana. 
Range. — Rocky Mountain region from New 
Mexico to Montana. 
515b. California Pine Grosbeak. Pini 
cola enucleator calif ornica. 
Purple Finch 
Range. — Higher parts of the Sierra Nevadas in California. 
515c. Alaska Pine Grosbeak. Pinicola enucleator alascensis. 
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. 
515b— 517a 
[516.] Cassin’s Bullfinch. Pyrrhula cassini. 
Range.— Northern Asia; accidental in Alaska. 
517- Purple Finch. Carpodacus purpureas purpureas. 
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 
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 
with horse hair. The eggs, which are usually laid in June, 
are greenish blue, spotted with dark brownish; size 
.85 x .65. 
517a. California Purple 
Finch. Carpodacus purpureas calif ornicus. 
Range. — Pacific coast, breeding from central California 
to British Columbia and wintering throughout California. 
The nesting habits and eggs of this darker colored 
variety are just like those of the last. 
Greenish blue 
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