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To do that, he needed first to accurately describe birds’ color, from the vibrant reddish orange of an American robin’s breast to the wine reds of the purple finch.

For example, the house finch almost always dominates the purple finch, and the purple finch almost always dominates the dark-eyed junco, but when house finch and junco face off directly, the junco often dominates.

Or maybe they were purple finches; I find birds so much more difficult to identify than a stationary perennial.

A purple finch flew from a holly tree and landed atop the bird feeder, which dangled from a wire attached to a pole.

The image of a bull moose beat out a purple finch, a covered bridge and a maple tree and sap bucket for the plate’s design.