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FAMILY TANAGRID^: THE TANAGERS. 

 Genus PIRANGA Vieillot, 1807. 



Piranga erythromelas Vieillot. Scarlet Tanager. 



Tanagra rubra (not Fringilla rubra Linnaeus, 1758) LINN^US, S. N., 



ed. 12, I, 1766, 314. 

 Pyranga rubra SWAINSON AND RICHABDSON, Fauna Bor. Amer., II, 



1831, 273. 

 Pyranga erythromelas VIELLOT, Nouv, Diet. d'Hist. Nat, XXVIII, 



1819, 293. 

 Popular synonym : BLACK-WINGED REDBIRD. 



The Scarlet Tanager is a common summer resident, arriving 

 the last of April and departing the last of September. 



The range of this species lies east of the Great Plains, and 

 from Manitoba and southern Ontario southward, in winter to 

 the eastern portion of Mexico, Central America, northern South 

 America and the West Indies. It breeds chiefly in the more 

 northern portion of its range. 



Piranga rubra (Linnaeus). Summer Tanager. 



Fringilla rubra LINNAEUS, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. 



Tanagra aestiva GMELIN, S. N., I, 1788, 889. 



Pyranga aestiva VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ed. 2, XXVIII, 



1819, 291. 



Piranga rubra VIEILLOT, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807, p. iv. 

 Popular synonyms: SUMMEB REDBIBD. VEBMILION TANAGEB. RED 



TANAGEB. RED BEE-BIED. 



The summer Tanager is, at the present time at least, a very 

 rare summer visitant. Mr. Robert Kennicott says that it was 

 not rare at the time he wrote his list of Cook County birds.* 

 He also states that the species was known to nest in Cook County. 

 Mr. E. W. Nelson says:f "A rare summer visitant. I know 

 of but few instances of its occurrence." Mr. O. M. Schantz of 

 Morton Park, Illinois, informs me that a Summer Tanager has 

 made an extended visit to his grounds, and that it has been seen 

 by a number of persons who were familiar with the bird, so that 

 there seems to be no question of its occurrence occasionally with- 

 in our limits. Mr. Schantz saw this Tanager in April, 1904. 



The Summer Tanager is, at the present time at least, a very 

 range which extends throughout the eastern United States west 

 to the Plains, and from southern New Jersey and southern Illi- 

 nois southward, wintering in eastern Mexico and southward to 



*Trans. Illinois State Agri, Society. Vol. 1. 1853-1854. 585. 



tBirds of Northeastern Illinois. Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 104. 



