Teachers' manual of bird-life/Plate 53

by Ernest Seton Thompson

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.