162 REDSTART AND TANAGER. 



stump of a dead tree hanging over the Kootanie 

 river, feeling desirous to obtain specimens from 

 that locality. Specimens were also obtained 

 at Sumass, Vancouver Island, and Colville, and 

 there can be no doubt there is but one species 

 common to the entire district. 



THE REDSTART (Setophaga ruticilla, Swainson). 

 This exquisite little bird, more like a tropical 

 sea-shell than a feathered songster, I met 

 twice only in my rambles once at this place, 

 and again in the Colville valley ; both were males, 

 and in full nuptial plumage. From its extreme 

 scarcity I am disposed to think it is only an 

 occasional visitor to the eastern slopes of the 

 Cascades, the ridge being its boundary north- 

 wards. The birds I obtained were shot in July. 



LOUISIANA TANAGER (Pyranga ludoviciana, 

 Bonap.). I never saw this bird west of the 

 Cascade Mountains ; it arrives here and at Colville 

 in June. Male birds are first seen. On ar- 

 riving, they perch on the tops of the highest 

 pine-trees, and continually utter a low piercing 

 chirp. Soon after they pair, and disappear into 

 the forest. Where these birds build I cannot 

 imagine ; I have sought high and low for the nest, 

 but never succeeded in finding it. I am inclined 

 to think they must build on the tops of the very 

 loftiest pine -trees ; they leave again in September, 



