42 NESTS AND EGGS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



length by. 62 to .65 in breadth. The Tanager, one of the most brilh'ant 

 and striking of all our birds, is distributed from Texas to Maine, and from 

 South Carolina to the northern shores of Lake Huron, in all of which lo- 

 calities it breeds. The nest is oftenest found in low, thick woods, or in 

 the skirting of tangled thickets; very often, also, in an orchard, on the 

 horizontal limb of some low tree or sapling. The nest is usually very flat, 

 loosely constructed of twigs, fine bark-strips, lined with rootlets and fine 

 inner bark. Frequently this bird is called " Pocket Bird" from the black 

 wings resembling pockets on the side. 



Hab. Eastern United States and southern border of Canada; west to the Plains. 



162. Western Tanager — pyranga ludoviciana. Light bluish-green, 

 speckled chiefly at the greater end with markings of umber, intermingled 

 with a few dots of lilac ; the eggs closely resemble those of the Eastern 

 species; three or four in number; size, .95 by .65; the nest is almost 

 identical with that of P. riiln'a. Breeds in all its North American range. 



Hab, Western portion of United States, from the Missouri Plains to the Pacific; British Columbia. 



163. Hepatic Tanager. — pyranga hepatica. Pale, light green, some 

 sparingly marked over the entire &g^ with large blotches of purplish- 

 brown, others are thickly covered with dottings of the same hue; the eggs 

 resemble those of the summer Redbird ; size, .75 to .95 in length, and .6"] 

 to .70 in breadth. The nest also is said to resemble that of P. cBStiva. 



Hab. Mountain regions of Mexico and Southern Rocky Mountains of United States. 



164. Summer Redbird — pyranga ^:stiva. Bright light emerald green, 

 spotted, marbled, dotted and blotched with various shades of lilac, 

 brownish-purple and dark brown ; they cannot, with certainty, be dis- 

 tinguished from the eggs of the Tanager. All the nests of this species 

 which I have seen, collected in this State (Ohio), are very thin and fragile 

 structures; so thin that the eggs may be seen from below. A nest sent 

 me from Lee County, Texas, by Mr. J. A. Singley, is compactly built of a 

 cottony weed, a few stems of Spanish moss, and lined with fine grass 

 stems and a ^^^n catkins. All Ohio nests are composed chiefly of bark- 

 strips and leaves interwoven with various vegetable substances. The nest 

 is usually placed on a horizontal or drooping branch near its extremity, 

 and situated at the edge of a grove near the roadside. This bird breeds 

 throughout its United States Range. Rose Tanager is another name by 

 which it is known. 



Hab. Eastern Province United States, north to about 10 , straggling even to Nova Scotia. 



166. Pine Grosbeak — pinicola enucleator. Light slate color ground 

 with a marked tinge of greenish, broadly marked and plashed with faint, 

 subdued, cloudy patches of brownish-purple and sparingly spotted, chiefly 

 at the larger end, with blackish-brown and dark purple; three or four in 



