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Teachers' manual of bird-life/Haemorhous purpureus

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2486798Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. Teachers ManualPlate LIII, Purple Finch, (Haemorhous purpureus)Ernest Seton Thompson


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Purple Fich.

Length, 6.20 inches. Adult male, rose-pink; back brownish; lower belly white; no white in wings. Adult female and young, upper parts streaked brownish and grayish; under parts white, streaked with brownish; bill rounded on top; a tuft of bristly feathers over the nostrils.