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PURPLE FINCH. 
tinged with yellow, particularly on the rump, where it was 
brownish yellow; from above the eye, backwards, passed a 
streak of white, and another more irregular one from the lower 
mandible; feathers of the crown narrow, rather long, and gen- 
erally erected, but not so as to form a crest; nostrils and base 
of the bill covered with reflected brownish hairs; eye dark ha- 
zel; wings and tail dark blackish brown, edged with olive; first 
and second row of coverts tipt with pale yellow; chin white; 
breast pale cream, marked with pointed spots of deep olive 
brown; belly and vent white; legs brown. This bird, with sev- 
eral others marked nearly in the same manner, was shot, April 
twenty -fifth, while engaged in eating the buds from the beech 
tree. 
