1: House Finch at feeder in Mt. Vernon. 
Mrs. Glass and friends had numerous opportunities to observe and photo- 
graph the bird which visited the feeder three to five times each half-day 
until it disappeared in late December. We did not hear the call note, but 
the chance that the bird was an oddly plumaged specimen of another species 
seems remote. 
Dr. George W. Sutton of the University of Oklahoma examined our 
photograph in comparison with good series of Carpodacets specimens and 
concurred that the bird was a House Finch. In recent years this species 
has been detected increasingly at feeders in eastern states according to 
Robbins, Bruun, and Zim, 1966, “A Guide to Field Identification: Birds of 
North America.” —Mrs. H. W. Hannah, Texico, Il. 
2: House Finch with Purple Finch. 
