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. 
Tue Repsrart (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. — 
LoutsianaA Tanacer (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, 
