. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Fig. 76. —Good work in the orchard. TANAGERS. This group of brilliant woodland birds is represented hereby but two species ; one of these, the Summer Tanager, isvery rarely seen ; the common Scarlet Tanager is one ofthe most valuable birds of orchard and woodland. 212 USEFUL BIRDS. Scarlet Tanager. Piraiujd, — About seven Male.—Entire body b
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Fig. 76. —Good work in the orchard. TANAGERS. This group of brilliant woodland birds is represented hereby but two species ; one of these, the Summer Tanager, isvery rarely seen ; the common Scarlet Tanager is one ofthe most valuable birds of orchard and woodland. 212 USEFUL BIRDS. Scarlet Tanager. Piraiujd, — About seven Male.—Entire body bright scarlet; wings and tail black; in autumn much like female, but retaining the black on wings and Female. — Greenish above; yellowish below; wings and tail darker and — Of fine twigs and straws: usually in lower branches of some large tree, but sometimes fully twenty feet up; occasionally in the — Light greenish-blue, with brown and purplish — May to October. This most gorgeous of New England birds flashes throughthe trees like a brand i)lucked from tropical flame ; but itis a distinctly North American species, going south onlj in. Fig. 77. —Scarlet Tanngers (male and female) and gipsy moth caterpillars. its fall migration, and returning to its chosen northern homein the spring. The Tanager is a bird of large deciduouswoods, and is less common among great tracts of pines,hemlocks, and other coniferous trees, although it is oftenseen in small groves of these trees, and sometimes neststhere. The oaks are its first favorites, and wherever there SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 213 are large groves of white oaks Tanagers are sure to also frequent the detached oaks that are found in pas-tures near woodland. The chestnut is another favorite bird seems to have increased somewhat in numberswithin the last forty years, and for at least twenty years hasbeen common and sometimes abundan
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