Cassin's finch Cassin's finch Cassin's finch ("Haemorhous cassinii") is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. This species and the other "American rosefinches" are placed in the genus "Haemorhous". Adults have a short forked brown tail and brown wings. They have a longer bill than the purple finch. Adult males are raspberry red on the head, breast, back and rump; their back and undertail are streaked. Adult females have light brown upperparts and light underparts with brown streaks throughout; their facial markings are less distinct than those of the female purple finch. Their breeding habitat is coniferous forest in mountains of western
Metacresol purple Metacresol purple Metacresol purple or m"-cresol purple, also called m"-cresolsulfonphthalein is a triarylmethane dye and a pH indicator that is used in medicine to detect end-tidal carbon dioxide to ensure successful tracheal intubation in an emergency as the indicator inside a colorimetric carbon dioxide detector. It can be used to measure the pH in subzero temperatures of saline or hypersaline media. In colometric capnography the indicator is incorporated in a matrix that provides a pH just above the indicator's colour change, it undergoes the colour change from purple to yellow with CO; (a yellow colour often described as gold) when