. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 408 NESTS AND EGOS OF 608. SCiBLET TANAQEB. Plranga crythromelas VIelll Geog. Dist— Eastern United States north to Southern Canada, west to the Great Plains, south in winter to the West Indies, Central America and Northern South America. The male Scarlet Tanager is one of the most brilliant and striking of all our birds. From its black wings resembling pockets it is frequently called "; The female is plain olive- green. Breeds as far north as Southern Canada and west to Easter
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 408 NESTS AND EGOS OF 608. SCiBLET TANAQEB. Plranga crythromelas VIelll Geog. Dist— Eastern United States north to Southern Canada, west to the Great Plains, south in winter to the West Indies, Central America and Northern South America. The male Scarlet Tanager is one of the most brilliant and striking of all our birds. From its black wings resembling pockets it is frequently called "; The female is plain olive- green. Breeds as far north as Southern Canada and west to Eastern Kansas, south to South Carolina and Texas. It inhabits woodlands and is particularly fond of swampy places. The breeding season begins in the latter part of May. The nest is generally found in low, thick woods, or in the skirting of tangled thickets; very often, also, in an orchard, on the horizontal limb of some low tree or sapling. The nest is usually very flat, loosely constructed of twigs, fine bark strips, iined with rootlets and fine inner bark. The eggs are three to five in number, commonly four, and of a greenish-blue, speckled, spotted and blotched with rufous-brown, more or less confluent, in some chiefly at the larger end. The markings have a reddish tint while those of the Summer Redbird, P. ruhra, are more of a brown- ish hue. Ten eggs measure respectively ., , ., ., ,64, ., , ., ., .; average size . «08. Scarlet Tanager ; upper, female lower, male. 609. HEPATIC TANAGEH. Piranya hei)atica Swains. Geog. Dist.—Southern Arizona and New Mexico, southward. Mr. W. E. D. Scott gives this species as a summer resident in the oak region of the Catalina Mountains of Southern Arizona, at an altitude of 5000 feet, breeding late in the season, from May 6 to 9. A nest found July 12 containing three young was built on the outer Dranch of a live oak and was entirely similar to that of the Scarlet Tan
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