LIST. 



Royal Park. I have found their nests, with eggs, 

 from June 18 to July 13, and observed them here 

 from May 11 to August 13. 



Family Tanagridce. Tanagers. 

 Genus Piranga. Vieillot. 



188. Scarlet Tanager. (Red-bird.) P. erythrome- 



las. (Vieill )' 



"Transient Visitant," common. Usually ob- 

 served here from May 20 to 24, but on one occasion 

 I saw a male bird June 17, 1882, in Mount Royal 

 Park. I have not seen this species here in the 

 autumn, and, like the rose-breasted grosbeak, it 

 probably returns south by some other route. I shot 

 a female specimen of this species May 22, 1891, on 

 the spur of Mount Royal. 



189. Summer Tanager. (Red-bird ) P. rubra. (Linn. 

 " Transient Visitant," rare. Mr. Kuetzing says 



eight examples of this species have been shot on 

 the Island of Montreal, and he saw another one 

 here a number of years ago, and I believe I saw 

 one May 25, 1885, at St. Bruno, but it disappeared 

 so quickly and mysteriously out of sight that I 

 could not find it again. I do not think this species 

 has been observed here in the autumn, so that it 

 would be interesting to know by what route the 

 rose-breasted grosbeak, scarlet tanager and this 

 species return south to their winter quarters. 



