. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. SCARLET TANAGER 135 egres and progeny to the mercy and management of other smaller birds, m the same cage with a Red-Bird, which fed and reared it with great tenderness. They both continue to inhabit the same cage, and I have hopes that the Red-Bird will finish his pupil's education by teaching him his song. I must here remarl^ for the information of foreigners, that the story told by Le Page du Pratz, in his His
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. SCARLET TANAGER 135 egres and progeny to the mercy and management of other smaller birds, m the same cage with a Red-Bird, which fed and reared it with great tenderness. They both continue to inhabit the same cage, and I have hopes that the Red-Bird will finish his pupil's education by teaching him his song. I must here remarl^ for the information of foreigners, that the story told by Le Page du Pratz, in his History o/Loumana, and which has been so often repeated by other writers, that the Cardinal Grosbeak " collects together great hoards of maize and buck-wheat, often as much as a bushel, which it artfully covers with leaves and small twigs, leaving only a small hole for entrance into the magazine," is entirely fabulous. •' This species is eight inches long, and eleven in extent; tlie whole upper parts are a dull, dusky red, except the sides of the neck and head, which, as well as the whole lower parts, are bright vermilion; chin, front, and lores, black; the head is ornamented with a high, pointed crest, which it frequently erectd in an almost perpendicular position, and can also flntten at pleasure, so as to be scarcely percep- tible ; the tail extends three inches beyond the wings, and is nearly even at the end; the bill is of a brilliant coralline color, very thick and powerful, for breaking hard grain and seeds; the legs and feet, a light clay color, (not blood red, as BiifTon describes them;) iris of the eye, dark hazel. The female (Fig. 44) is less than the male, has the upper parts of a brownish olive, or drab color, the tail, wings, and tip of the crest excepted, which arc nearly as red as those of the male; the lores, front, and chin, are liglit ash; breast, and lower pans, a reddish drab ; bill, legs, and eyes, as those of the male; the crest is snorter, and l
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