78 THE SECOND BOOK OF BIRDS 
I found it hard to please him with food. He 
liked living insects, but he wanted to catch them 
for himself. So I got some sticky fly-paper, and 
hung it up outside the kitchen door. When I 
had caught half a dozen flies, I took it up to him. 
He was not in a cage, and the minute he saw the 
flies he flew across the room and hovered before 
me like a big hummingbird, while he daintily 
picked off every fly. He forgot that he didn’t 
like to have me see him eat. After that I was 
fly-catcher every day till he learned to lke mock- 
ing‘bird food. 
In the spring he began to smg — a sweet, low 
song, different from the common tanager song. 
Then I took him out to the country, away from 
the English sparrows, and set him free. 
The SumMMER TANAGER nests in the Southern 
States from New Jersey to Florida. He is all 
red, but otherwise looks like the scarlet tanager, 
and his habits are about the same. 
The Lovutstana TANAGER nests in the Western 
States from the Plains to the Pacific. He is 
brighter, with a variety of colors. He is mostly 
bright yellow, with brilliant red head, and black 
wings and tail, and his mate — like other female 
tanagers —is in olive green. He isa shy bird, 
