. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 6 BIRDS OF AMERICA olivaceous in winter), streaked with dusky and, to a less extent, with whitish; wings and tail, dusky with light olive or olive-grayish edgings; a hroad stripe of olive on side of head, and a more broken stripe or patch of the same on sides of throat; ear and cheek regions, mostly whitish, streaked with olive; under parts, white (tinged with buff in winter) broadly streaked with olive, except on abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts, the streaks distinctly wedge- shaped or triangular. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: Usually placed in
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 6 BIRDS OF AMERICA olivaceous in winter), streaked with dusky and, to a less extent, with whitish; wings and tail, dusky with light olive or olive-grayish edgings; a hroad stripe of olive on side of head, and a more broken stripe or patch of the same on sides of throat; ear and cheek regions, mostly whitish, streaked with olive; under parts, white (tinged with buff in winter) broadly streaked with olive, except on abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts, the streaks distinctly wedge- shaped or triangular. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: Usually placed in conifers; a frail open-work structure of grass, rootlets, bark strips, vegetable fibers, thickly lined with hair; resembles a Chipping Sparrow's nest, but larger. Eggs : 4 to 6, dull greenish-blue spotted with shades of brown, black, and lilac. Distribution.— Eastern North America; breeding from Pennsylvania (especially in mountains), northern New Jersey, Connecticut, southern Ontario, northern Illinois, Minnesota, and North Dakota, north to more eastern British provinces, Hudson Bay, Manitoba; in winter south to Gulf coast. The haunts of the Purple Finch are the low green forests, not the denser portions, but rather the open woods and swamps wliere firs and cedars are nunierous. He is one of the con-. C'lurtesy of Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. PORPLE FINCH C. nat. size) From the top of a balsam or a spruce he delivers his song spicuous birds of such a neighborhood. From the top of a balsam or a spruce he delivers his song — a rapid, easily flowing, melodious warble, re- sembling in a measure that of the Warbling Virco but more variable in character. Sometimes when overcome with emotion he launches into the air with vibrating wings, rising upward and upward, melody pouring from his throat like a torrent down a mountain side, until he has reached an altitude of two or three hundred feet, when with outstretched wings he descends in wide circles to the summit of the very tree from wh
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