Purple Finch, Fringilla purpurea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 119.
Purple Finch, Bonap. Syn. p. 114.
Fringilla purpurea Wilson, Crested Purple Finch, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 264.
Purple Finch, Fringilla purpurea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 24; v. v. p. 200.
197. 2. Erythrospiza frontalis, Say. Crimson-fronted Purple-Finch.
Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 2. Male.
Third quill longest, second and fourth equal; tail long, slightly emarginate, and a little rounded. Male with the forehead and a band over the eye, proceeding down the neck, crimson; throat, fore part of breast and sides, with the rump, rich carmine, the latter paler; upper parts greyish-brown, the head, hind neck, and fore part of back, tinged with crimson; feathers of wings and tail dusky, edged with brownish-grey; hind part of breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts yellowish-white, streaked with dusky. Female with the feathers of the upper parts brown, edged with brownish-white; the lower parts brownish-white, streaked with brown.
Male, 61/4, wing, 31/2.
Bases of Rocky Mountains. Rare. Migratory.
Fringilla frontalis, Say, Long's Exped. v. ii. p. 40.
Crimson-necked Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. i. pl. 1.
Crimson-fronted Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 534.
Crimson-necked Finch, Fringilla frontalis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 230.
198. 3. Erythrospiza tephrocotis, Swains. Grey-crowned Purple-Finch.
Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 3. Male.
Male dark umber-brown; upper part of head ash-grey, anteriorly spotted with black; first row of small wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts broadly edged and tipped with rose-red, as are the feathers of the sides, and the lower tail-coverts, feathers of wings and tail dusky brown, margined with brownish-white, the secondary coverts with dull red.