An early William Bartram painting of a purple finch, listed by Bartram as Fringilla purpureus, perched on a star anise (Illicium floridanum ).
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An early William Bartram painting of a purple finch, listed by Bartram as Fringilla purpureus, perched on a star anise (Illicium floridanum ).