Carpodacus numureus . 
1398. G ambr i dge , Mas s . 
March 1. At about 11 A.M. I heard a Purple Pinch singing in the 
garden and soon afterwards caught sight of the bird, a fine, 
rosy male sitting in the top of a willow near the Museum. It 
did not give the full song but warbled in lov;, somewhat broken 
tones at intervals of a minute or two for ten or twelve min- 
utes at the end of which it flew into the top of a cedar where 
it joined five other birds of the same species but all in the 
gray plumage. The flock continued in this tree for some time 
feeding on the juniper berries. A little later I saw the rosy 
male bathing in a puddle of melted snow near the garden walk. 
It must have been a chilly bath but the bird performed its 
ablutions very thoroughly not ceasing until its plumage was 
completely drenched. R. II. Howe, jr. has seen Purple Pinches 
at intervals through January and February in Brookline but 
these are the first that have appeared in Cambridge. 
March 12. Purple Finchs have been in our garden every day since 
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Ma rch 1st in numbers varying from one or two to five or six. 
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Peterborough, New Hampshire. 
1893. Apparently uncommon. An old male in full song July 6th 
July 6 and one or two females or young seen at the same place (near 
to 
Aug .15. the house on Ben Mere farm) July 8, 10, 12 & 18 and Aug. 9, 
being all that were met with. 
