CALIFORNIA PINE GROSBEAK. 
515b. Pinicola enuclealor calif arnica. 8 inches. 
These are one of the most unsuspicious birds that we have, 
and can be approached to within a few feet. The male is 
a bright red above and an ashy gray below, having much 
less of the red than his eastern relative. The female is a 
dull ashy gray, with a yellowish brown on the top of head 
and rump. They like the cooler places in which to live, and 
are found about the snow lines on the mountain, where they 
feed largely upon the seeds of the coniferous trees, in which 
they place their nests, making them of tine twigs and root¬ 
lets, and lining with grass and moss. They lay three or four 
eggs, light greenish blue, with splashes of brown and fainter 
markings of lilac (l.OOx.70). 
CALIFORNIA PURPLE FINCH. 
517a. Carpodacus purpureas californicus. 6 inches. 
This is found from British Columbia to southern California. 
It breeds well up in the mountains, usually in evergreens. 
Three or four eggs of a greenish blue, spotted with brown 
(.85 x .65). 
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