Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer- 
tain North Am, Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 
54. Carpodacus purpureus. 
First plumage : female. Above dark brown, shading to lighter on the 
rump, each feather edged with light reddish-brown. The forehead and 
supra-loral line streaked with grayish. Under parts dull white, thickly 
streaked everywhere, except on crissum and anal region, with, very dark 
brown. From a specimen in my collection taken at Cambridge, July 9, 
1873. Although this bird is in strictly first plumage, it differs scarcely 
appreciably in coloring from autumnal specimens. 
Bull. N.O.O. S, July. 1878 . p. //£ . 
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