TANAGERS 



they are most devoted parents when the 

 young are hatched and will then endure 

 almost any amount of disturbance without 

 resentment. 



FAMILY TANGARID.^: TANAGERS 



Western tanager, Piranga ludoviciana. 

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Distribution: From British Columbia to 

 Mexico and from the Mississippi Valley to 

 the Pacific Coast. Casually eastward to the 

 Atlantic states. South in winter through 

 Mexico to Guatemala. The western tanager 

 is the only representative in northwestern 

 North America of a family of nearly four 

 hundred species that centers in tropical 

 America. 



The western tanager, Louisiana tanager, or 

 crimson-headed tanager is found everywhere 

 in its range from sea level to high mountains, 

 where it often breeds at an elevation of ten 

 thousand feet. It inhabits all sorts of wooded 

 areas but seems to prefer coniferous timber. 

 East of the mountains it is abundant in the 

 belts of pine timber where it is often seen in 

 large flocks. In the valleys w^est of the moun- 

 tains it is common everywhere in the culti- 

 vated areas, coming about the farmsteads to 

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