Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 



615 



and a third has been recorded from Wisconsin. As a rule they are 

 fair, but not powerful, songsters. The nest is built in trees. 



Genus PIRANGA Vieill. 



279. Piranga ludoviciana (Wils.). 

 Louisiana Tanager. 



Distr.: Western United States, from western Texas, Kansas, and 

 western Dakota to the Pacific coast, north to Ontario and British 

 Columbia, south in winter to Guatemala; breeds from western Texas, 

 New Mexico, and Arizona northward; accidental in Louisiana, Wis- 

 consin, New York, Maine, etc. 



Adult male: Head and throat, red; nape, rump, and under parts, 

 yellow; wings and tail, blackish; back, black; greater and middle 

 wing coverts, broadly tipped with yellow or yellowish. 



Louisiana Tanager. 



Adult female: Above, olive green, brightest on rump and top of 

 head; under parts, olive yellow, palest on belly; under tail coverts, 

 yellow; greater and middle wing coverts, tipped with yellowish white, 

 forming wing bars. 



The wing bars will distinguish the female of this species from that 

 of our other Tanagers. 



Length, about 7; wing, 3.50 to 3.85; tail, 2.90; bill, .60. 



The only records of the occurrence of this handsome Tanager, 

 either in Illinois or Wisconsin, are the following by Messrs. Kumlien 

 & Hollister: 



