FRINGILLIN^. ERYTHROSPIZA. 
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reflexed bristly feathers. Head large, roundish-ovate ; neck 
short, body moderate. Tarsus short, slender, compressed? 
with seven scutella ; toes rather small, first stout, lateral 
nearly equal. Claws slender, much compressed, well arched, 
acute. Plumage soft and rather blended ; feathers of the 
hind head somewhat elongated and pointed. Wings of mo- 
derate length, rather pointed, the outer four quills longest. 
Tail of moderate length, deeply emarginate. Upper man- 
dible concave beneath, with two prominent lines, of which 
the lateral are much larger ; tongue higher than broad, chan- 
nelled above, the tip somewhat rounded and concave ; oeso- 
phagus dilated about the middle ; stomach roundish, muscu- 
lar ; intestine short ; coeca very small. 
196. 1. Erythrospiza purpurea, Gmel. Crested Purple- 
Finch. — Purple Finch. 
Plate IV. Male and Female. 
Second quill longest, first shorter than third. Male with the head, 
neck, breast, back, and upper tail-coverts, crimson, paler behind ; 
fore part of the back spotted with brown ; quills, larger coverts, and 
tail, deep brown, margined with dull red. Female with the upper 
parts yellowish-olive, streaked with brown ; a whitish band over the 
eye ; lower parts greyish- white, streaked with brown. Young like 
the female. 
Male, 6, 9. 
During winter, from Texas to the Carolinas, and northward to Ken- 
tucky, In summer, from St Louis to the Columbia, and in the Fur 
Countries. Abundant. 
Purple Finch, Fringilla purpurea, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 119. 
Purple Finch, Bonap. Syn. p. 114. 
Fringilla purpurea Wilson, Crested Purple Finch, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. 
Amer. v. ii. p. 264. 
Purple Finch, FringiUa purpurea, Auh. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 24 ; v. v. p. 200. 
197. 2. Erythrospiza frontalis. Say. Crimson-fronted Pur- 
ple-Finch. 
Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 2. Male. 
Third quill longest, second and fourth equal; tail long, slightly 
emarginate, and a little rounded. Male with the forehead and a band 
over the eye, proceeding down the neck, crimson ; throat, fore part 
of breast and sides, with the rump, rich carmine, the latter paler ; 
upper parts greyish-brown, the head, hind neck, and fore part of back. 
