4o4 ORNITHOLOGY. 



slate-black, pale purplish on base of lower niaiulible ; iris, brown; tarsi anil toes, 

 black. 



1011, nest anil cg^s (I); Salt Lake City, Utali, May L'l, ISCl). Ncot in oak-busb, 

 abont Ibnr feet from ground. 



10."j5, nest and eggs; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 27, 1809. Nest in sagebusb. 



1 ()!).■"), nest and egg (1) ; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 4, 18G9. Ne.st in 

 sagi'-busb. 



lll.",t, nest and eggs (1); Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 7, 18(59. Nest 

 in rose-busb in ravine. 



1 1-_'7, eggs (2) ; Promontory Toint, Utah, June, 18G9. fF. A. Clark.] 



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



Family TAN AG RID.E— T.vnag ees. 



r YH ANG A LUDOVICIAN A. 

 >Vcstci'(i Tr-Biagci-; "LoMisiana Taiiascr."' 



Tunagra Iiuloriviana, Wilson, Am. Oru., Ill, 1811, 27, pi. 22, lig. 1. 



rijmnga ludoviciana, AuDUBON, Synop., 1839, 137.— Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 303; 

 Catal. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 223.— Cooi'ER, Orn. Cal., 145.— Coues, Key, 1872, 

 112 ; Check List, 1873, No. 110; B. N.W., 1874, 83.— B. B. & E., Hist. N. Am. 

 B., I, 1874, 437, pi. XX, figs. 3, 4.— Henshaw, 1875, 235. 



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

 found 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 eastward until well into the pine 

 forest of the Sierra Nevada. It Avas 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. 

 ruhra) of tlie East. From this point i-astward it was met with in every 

 wooded locality, being much more frc(picntly seen on the moinitains than 

 along the rivers of the lower valle}-s. In I\Iay, .soon after llieir arri\al 

 from the south, these Tanagers were very mtmerous in the I'ich valley 

 of the Truckee, near P}-ramid Lake, where they were observed to feed 

 chiefly on the buds of the grease-wood bushes {Oh'wnc roiifniifolia), in 

 companv with tlu^ Ulack-hcaded (Jrosl)eak and UnUock's Oriole. A'ery 

 few were seen later in tlie season, however, nearl}- all ha\ing departed ior 

 the mountain woods. During Jvdy and August it ^vas a comnion species 

 on the eastern slope of the Ruby Mountains, where it inhabited the groves 

 ' Geographically inappropriate. 



