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Hemlady said:Thanks Ann and Christine!!! I know one of the finches, purple or House, has more color than the other one but I can't recall which one.

The purple has the more color. Every one I saw online had purple (or I call it red) in the back. Your photo shows some color going down the back of the head & between the shoulder blades, then no red until you see it peeking form under the the wings there just at the base of the tail. Like this:
https://www.audubon.org/sites/...
And see the photos here:
http://animals.nationalgeograp...
And here:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/...

The purple finch has much more red on it. See:
https://www.audubon.org/field-...

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/...

AND here are 3 sites comparing the 2.
http://www.pbase.com/rcm1840/p...

http://birding.about.com/od/id...

http://sdakotabirds.com/diffid...

Lin, I have the house finches here.