Long-tailed finch length. It has a prominent roundish black bib on its throat and upper chest and a long pointed black tail. It has pinkish brown upperparts with paler plumage below its bib over the lower breast and abdomen. It has a grey head, a white ear-patch, and black lores. It has black patches on its upper flanks and its rump and undertail coverts are white. The beak colour of the adult long-tailed finch varies from red through orange to yellow. The subspecies with red beaks is sometimes called Heck's grass finch "Poephila acuticauda hecki", and the nominate subspecies with orange or
Purple finch Purple finch The purple finch ("Haemorhous purpureus") is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. This species and the other "American rosefinches" were formerly included with the rosefinches of Eurasia in the genus "Carpodacus"; however, the three North American species are not closely related to the rosefinches of the Old World, and have thus been moved to the genus "Haemorhous" by most taxonomic authorities. It is included in the finch family, Fringillidae, which is made up of passerine birds found in the northern hemisphere, Africa, and South America. The purple finch was originally described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789.