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white; breast, rose-carmine; lining of the under wing, delicate rose. 

 The female has the upper parts a light brown streaked with darker; a 

 line over the eye, a slight one below it and one of the middle of the 

 crown, tips of the wing coverts, and under pArts, white; breast and sides 

 streaked and spotted with brown; bright yellow under the wings, and 

 sometimes a tinge of the same on the upper part of the breast. I have 

 also seen a rose tint mixed with the yellow under the wings, and also a 

 male with the most delicate tint of pink on the rump. 

 NEST AND EGGS. 



The nest of this species, built late in May, is a frail and loosely 

 woven affair, placed in the top of a bush or on the lower horizontal 

 limb of a tree. It is composed outside of small sticks, twigs, or coarse 



strawy material, ornamented 

 with a few skeleton leaves, and is 

 lined with very fine dry twigs of 

 some evergreen tree, or with fine 

 rootlets, and is sometimes finish- 

 ed with horsehair. The whole 

 structure is so loosely put to- 

 gether that one can see through 

 it from below. The eggs which 

 number 'four;'^ or five, are light 

 greenish blue, speckled and spot- 

 ted with brown and lilac, the 

 markings often thickened or 

 wreathed about the larger end. 

 The nest and eggs strongly re- 

 semble those of the Scarlet 

 Tanager, both being a sort of 

 rude log cabin sort of affair for 

 birds of such "distant and high 

 bred ways." 



Photo by J. P. Pardee. 



