144 Birds of Oregon and Washington 



from Lewis and Clarke during their memorable 

 expedition, and is one of the three birds made 

 famous by their discoveries ; the other two, 

 Clarke's Crow and Lewis's Woodpecker, are 

 noticed elsewhere. This bird is found over a 

 wide extent of western territory and received the 

 name " Louisiana " because all of the land west 

 of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and from the Gulf of Mexico to British 

 America, purchased from France in 1803 by the 

 United States, was known, at that time, by that 

 name. 



The Tanager family is an immense and bril- 

 liantly-plumaged one. America (North and 

 South) alone has three hundred and fifty varie- 

 ties ; but all the varieties except the one here 

 and the two in the East, live in the tropics. We 

 must, therefore, make the best of our only 

 Tanager, which is, however, both beautiful and 

 abundant. 



PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Male : Upper parts, as 

 in general description, except wings are crossed with 

 two yellow bars. 



Female : Olive-greenish above, pale yellow below ; 

 two faint wing-bars. No black and no red on this bird. 



Summer resident only. 



