BIRDS — SYLVICOLIDAE PYEAXGA AESTIVA. 



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Sr. Cii.— Bill shorlor than the head. Second quill longest ; first and third a little shorter. Tail moderately forked. General 

 color of male hriglit carmine. Wings anil tail velvet black, llio quills internally edged with white towards the base. Female 

 olive green above, yellowish beneath. Wing and tail feathers brown, edged with olivaceous. Length, 7.40 ; wing, 4.00 ; tail 

 3.00. 



Jlab. — &stern United States to the Missouri river. 



The young males are colored like the females, hut generally exhihit more or less of red 

 feathers among the greenish ones. Sometimes the full plumage is varied by a few yellow- 

 feathers, or by olivaceous edges to the wings. Not unfrequently there is a partly concealed bar 

 of red or yellow (1566) on the wing, across the median coverts. Young males are sometimes 

 seen with the body like the female, the wings and tail like the male. 



List of specimens. 



Locality. 



Carlisle, Pa 



do 



do 



, do 



Ohio 



Union county, III 



Independence, Mo. .. 



, do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



St. Loui?, Mo. 



When col- 

 Iccicd. 



June 30, 1843 

 May lU, 1844 

 May 23, 1844 

 May 3, 1644 



April 

 May 

 June 

 May 

 Slay 

 June 

 May 

 June 

 May 



30 



27, 1857 

 3,1857 

 27, 1857 

 2S), 1857 

 QO, 1857 



26, 1857 

 20,1857 



27, 1857 



June 18, 1857 

 May 8, 1&J7 



Whence obtained. 



S. F. Baird . 

 do 



do 



do 



Dr. Kirlland 



R. Kennicott 



Wm. M. Magrnw. 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do , 



do , 



do 



do 



Lieut. Bn-an. 



Orig. 

 No. 



Collected by— Leagth 



Dr. Cooper. . 



, do 



do 



, ....do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do , 



W. S. Wood 



Stretch 

 of wings. 



7.25 

 7.08 

 7.41 

 7.00 



7.25 

 7.50 

 7.25 

 6.75 

 7.25 

 7.50 

 7.12 

 7.25 



12.00 

 11 50 

 11.75 

 11.25 



11.25 

 12.00 

 11.35 

 11.35 

 11.50 

 12.00 

 11.75 

 12.25 



11.25 



Wing. 



4.50 

 3.83 

 3.91 

 3.75 



4.00 

 4.00 

 4. 00 

 4.00 

 3.75 

 4.00 

 4.00 

 4.25 



Remarks. 



Iria brown, bill olive, feet gray. 



do do 



do do 



do do 



do do 



do do 



Iris brown, bill blacic, feet lead, 

 frirt brown, bill black and yel- 

 low, feet gray 



do do 



PYRANGA AESTIVA, V i e i 1 1 o t . 



Sammer Red Bird. 



Muscicapa rubra, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 326. 



Tanagra aesliva, Gmelis, I, 1788, 889.— WiLso.v, I, 1810, 95 ; pi. vi, f. 3.— At'D. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, S232 : V, 1839, 



518 ; pi. 44. 

 ryranga adtiva, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XXVIII, 1819,291.— Bon. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850.— Add. Syn. 1839, 



136— 1b. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 222 ; pi. 208.— Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1855, 156.— Ib. 1856, 123. 

 Photnisoma atstiva, Sw. Birds, II, 1837, 284. 

 Phoenicosoma aesliva, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 25. 

 ? Loxia tiirg:inico, Gmelin, I, 1788, 849. (Male changing.) 

 ? 7anog7o mUsissippiensis, Gmelin, I, 1788, 889. 



Taiiojra variegata, Lath. Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 422. (Male changing.) 

 Tangare du J\Iississippi , Bcffon, Ois. V, 63 ; pi. enl. 741. 



Sp. Ch. — Bill nearly as long as the head, without any median tooth. Tail nearly even, or slightly rounded. Male, ver- 

 milion red ; a little darker above, and brightest on the head. Quills brown, the outer wcl)s like the back. Shafts only of the 

 tail feathers brown. Bill light horn color, more yellowish at the edges. Female, olive above, yellow beneath, with a tinge of 

 reddish. Length, 7.20 ; wing, 3.75; tail, 3.00. 



Hab. — South Atlantic and Gulf States, througi Texas, and south to Guatemala. 



The shade of red varies somewhat in the specimen, the shade being sometimes more rose. It 

 is always quite different from that of F. rubra. The female lacks the pure olive and yellow 



