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From: gh@utai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst)
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Subject: Re: how do you spell House ____?
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 14:00:15 EDT
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> We used to call House Finches, Purple Finches.
>							Geoff

House finches and purple finches are different species.  The house finch is
smaller and has a different song; the male purple finch has a much richer
color.	See Petersen's Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies, page 270 (4th
edition), for more details.  (I assume the West-of-the-Rockies edition also
lists them.)
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