Notes oil the liirds-. 373 



1 was a mere child. Imt I iciiicnilpcr i( disliiictly, set dfep was Iho itiiprossion 

 made upon iiic. With several elder e(iiiii)aiii(Jiis we wore going, one Satur- 

 day afternoon, to llie old swinniiinj;- iiole at tlie niill-dani on Wild Cat Creek 

 above r.nrliniiton. One of the ohU-r hoys iiad a gun, and as we passed along 

 the ediic of tiie woods at the side of a Held a male Searlet Tanager — it 

 seemed to me the most beautiful bird I had ever seen — api)earecl on a linih 

 oveihanging our path. The hoy with the gun. to show his Kkill, firetl and 

 brought it (low n. not dead but sorely wounded and calling piteously — I ean 

 hear it yet; I have iievcr forgotten its cry or the protest which the other 

 boys and I made to oui- Ihoughlless conii)anion. I am sure our protest did 

 good, for he is now a kindly, symi)athetic man who w'oidd protest as strongly 

 as we did then should be se(> any on(> ne(Mlh>ssly taking th(> life of any wild 

 bird. 



]l()iii(jr Coinilii: rerb;ips even more common than in the other counties. 

 (>ii M;iy Cp. ISS-J. a score or more seen ;it the north edge of Dunn's woods 

 with unusual numbers of bobolinks and I'altimore orioles, feeding in a 

 small meadow. Noted again in nundiers in the same place, April 22 and May 

 s. IssCi. ,Tune 2. 1SS2. a nest with li\i' ]iarti;illy incubated eggs at Wyandotte 

 Cave. 



\'i(/o Coiiiil!/: (Juite common. First seen in isss. on .Vpril 30. near the 

 Fair grounds. A tine male collecte(l yiay IL', Isss, near Sand Hill, three 

 miles east of Terre Haute. On .\pril :.'(;. is'.Kt, my student. D. C. Ridgley, 

 shot an unusually beautiful specimen at Sand Hill. It was probably a 

 one-year-old male. The black of wings and tail was very glossy, the red 

 cpiite clear hut pale: back, breast, and sides with numerous patches of 

 yellowish, and in the black of one shoulder was one i-ed feather. This was 

 the first tanager seen that season. Thn-e days lat(M-. April 2!». near the 

 same place. I secured another uniisually marked and very beautiful male. 

 There were three very small patches of olive on the head and live or six 

 larger one-; on the nunp : from middle of belly backward slightly more than 

 half was light yellow : the shorter under tail coverts were bright red. the 

 others clear yellow. A male nt)ted April 30. another May 2, and May 5, 

 1888. 



159. PntAXci.v Kti!RA RiHKA ( Liuna'us t . Nimmek tanager. (610) 



This beautiful tanager is common throughout southern Indiaim but ap- 

 parently does not go much, if at all. north of Vi,go County. 



In Monroe County, it is .i rather common summer resident, arriving 

 from the south in the latter part of April and remaining until late in Sep- 

 tember. It most delights in the open woodlands of beech and maple. I have 

 seen it most frecpiently north and east of Blofuuington. perhaps merely 

 because my trips afield most often took me in that direction. Although I 

 saw this species often in the sea.sons of 1882. lS8u, and 1886. I find but two 

 entries in my note.s — May 20, 1882, shot six (males and females) ; not very 

 common; April 28, 188(5, seen. A female obtained north of Bloomington. 

 May 4, 1886, was remarkable for its very bright plumage, the throat, breast, 

 and crissum being rich orange, while the tail above, and the entire head, 

 were quite red. The sex was determined by dissection and was certain. 

 While on a walking trip to Wyandotte (_'ave in .lune, 1882, I saw the Sum- 

 mer Tanager frecjuently between Orleans and the Ohio River. 



