Notes on the Birds. Slo 
I was a mere child, but I remember it distinctly, so deep was the impression 
made upon me. With several older companions we were going, one Satur- 
day afternoon, to the old swimming hole at the mill-dam on Wild Cat Creek 
above Burlington. One of the older boys had a gun, and as we passed along 
the edge of the woods at the side of a field a male Scarlet Tanager—it 
seemed to me the most beautiful bird I had ever seen—appeared on a limb 
overhanging our path. The boy with the gun, to show his skill, fired and 
brought it down, not dead but sorely wounded and calling piteously—I can 
hear it yet; I have never forgotten its ery or the protest which the other 
boys and I made to our thoughtless companion. I am sure our protest did 
good, for he is now a kindly, sympathetic man who would protest as strongly 
as we did then should he see any one needlessly taking the life of any wild 
bird. 
Monroe County: Perhaps even more common than in the other counties. 
On May 6, 1882, a score or more seen at the north edge of Dunn’s woods 
with unusual numbers of bobolinks and Baltimore orioles, feeding in a 
small meadow. Noted again in numbers in the same place, April 22 and May 
8, 1886. June 2, 1882, a nest with five partially incubated eggs at Wyandotte 
Cave. 
Vigo County: Quite common. First seen in 1888, on April 30, near the 
Fair grounds. A fine male collected May 12, 1885, near Sand Hill, three 
miles east of Terre Haute. On April 26, 1890, my student, D. C. Ridgley, 
shot an unusually beautiful specimen at Sand Hill. It was probably a 
one-year-old male. The black of wings and tail was very glossy, the red 
quite clear but pale; back, breast, and sides with numerous patches of 
yellowish, and in the black of one shoulder was one red feather. This was 
the first tanager seen that season. Three days later, April 29, near the 
same place, I secured another unusually marked and very beautiful male. 
There were three very small patches of olive on the head and five or six 
larger ones on the rump; from middle of belly backward slightly more than 
half was light yellow; the shorter under tail coverts were bright red, the 
others clear yellow. A male noted April 30, another May 2, and May 5, 
1888. 
159. PIRANGA RUBRA RUBRA (Linnieus). SUMMER TANAGER. (610) 
This beautiful tanager is common throughout southern Indiana but ap- 
parently does not go much, if at all, north of Vigo County. 
In Monroe County, it is a rather common summer resident, arriving 
from the south in the latter part of April and remaining until late in Sep- 
tember. It most delights in the open woodlands of beech and maple. I have 
seen it most frequently north and east of Bloomington, perhaps merely 
because my trips afield most often took me in that direction. Although I 
saw this species often in the seasons of 1882. 1885, and 1886, I find but two 
entries in my notes—May 20, 1882, shot six (males and females) ; not very 
common; April 28, 1886, seen. A female obtained north of Bloomington, 
May 4, 1886, was remarkable for its very bright plumage, the throat, breast, 
and crissum being rich orange, while the tail above, and the entire head, 
were quite red. The sex was determined by dissection and was certain. 
While on a walking trip to Wyandotte Cave in June, 1882, I saw the Sum- 
mer Tanager frequently between Orleans and the Ohio River, 
