4o4 ORNITHOLOGY. 



slate-black, pal« puri)lish on base of lower luaiidible ; iris, brown j tarsi and toes, 

 black. 



lOll, nest and eggs (1); Salt Lako City, Utah, Mny L'l, I8Gi). Neat in oakbnsli, 

 about lour feet I'roni Kronnil. 



10j5, nest and ejrgs; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 27, 1809. Nest in sage-bush. 



1095, nest and egg (1) ; Antelo[)e Island, Great Salt Lake, June 4, 18G9. Nest in 

 sage-bush. 



1129, nost and eggs (4); Antelope I.sland, Great Salt Lake, June 7, 1809. Nest 

 in rose-bush in ravine. 



1427, eg-is (2); Promontory Point, Utah, June, 1809. [F. A. Clark.] 



1521, eggs; Fremont's Island, Great Salt Lake, August 10, 1809. |F. A. Clark.] 



Family TANAGRIDJ:— Tanageks. 

 Pyranga ludoviciana. 



'Western Tanagcr; " LociUinnxi TunaKcr.'" 



Tanagra htdoriciana, Wilson, Am. Oru., Ill, 1811, 27, pi. 22, fig. 1. 



Pyranga ludoviciana, AUDUBON, Synop., 1839, 137. — Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 303 ; 

 Catal. N. Am. V,., IS.^9, No. 223.— Cooi'KU, Oin. Cal., 145.— CouES, Key, 1872, 

 112; Check List, 187,!, No. 110; B. N.W., 1874, S3.— B. B. & R., Uist. N. Am. 

 B.y I, 187 1, 437, pi. XX, (igs. 3, 4.— Uenshaw, 1875, 235. 



This beautiful Tanager, one of the most brilliant of western birds, was 

 fiuuul to be very generally distributed through the wooded portions of 

 the route traversed, excepting in the valley portions of California, none 

 having been seen from Sacramento eastwai-d until well into the pine 

 forest of the Sierra Nevada. It was first observed on the western portion 

 of that range, at an altitude of about 5,000 feet, its song first attracting 

 attention, from its extreme similarity to that of the Scarlet Tanager (P. 

 rubra) of the East. l''nnn this point eastward it was met with in every 

 wooded locality, being iiiiuh more frequently seen on the mountains tlian 

 along the rivers of tlie lower valleys. In May, soon after llicir ani\al 

 from the soiith, these Tanagers were very numerous in the rich valley 

 of the Truckee, near Pyramid Lake, where they were observed to feed 

 chiefly on the buds of the grease-wood bushes (Obione coufertifoUa), in 

 company with the IJlack-lieaded Grosbeak and Bullock's Oriole. Very 

 few were seen later in the season, however, nearly all liaving departed lor 

 the mountain woods. During July and August it was a common species 

 (HI the eastern slope of tlie Ruby Mountains, where it inhabited the gi'oves 



' Geographically inappropriate. 



