416 Cabot’s Description of Pyranga Roseo-gularis. 
cess. This mode of taking. them I have practised in one 
stream three years in succession, and taken many fine trout. 
The unscientific mode-of hooking them up by the caudal 
extremity, is also practised at the spawning season, when they 
are averse to taking the bait, and where the stream is deeper 
and wider. The manner is as follows. A large sized hook, 
made very sharp, is fastened to the end of a long straight stick, 
or piece of whalebone, ‘The fish is then sought and generally 
found beneath the root of an old tree, or under the shadow of 
a log, with the head and part of the body out of sight; the 
hook is then carefully introduced near the extremity of the 
fish, and by a sudden jerk, is inserted so as effectually to se- 
cure him. 
ART. XXXII. — DESCRIPTION OF PYRANGA ROSEO-GULARIS, 
(ROSE-THROATED TANAGER.) By Saxvzr Caso, Jr., M. B 
Mare. Top of head, outer edge of primaries, and seconda- 
ries, and surface, of greater and lesser wing coverts, the tail 
and its upper coverts, bright brownish red. Under side of 
tail and its under coverts, throat, and flexures of wings; bright 
rose color. Back and posterior part of cheeks, dark brownish 
ash color. Anterior part of cheeks, breast and belly, light ash- 
colored. ‘Twelve tail feathers. Bill strongly toothed, horn- 
color on top, lighter beneath. Legs and feet, horn-colored. 
Total length, 6; inches. Length of bill, » of an inch along the 
ridge, and $ along gape, 5 of an inch across at base, 7 through 
from above down. Tooth situated at 3 of an inch from point 
of the bill. Tarsus rather more than $ of an inch in length. 
Tail, 26 inches long. Wing from flexure, 3} inches. 
I only saw one pair of these birds while I was in Yucatan, 
of which I only procured the male, from which the above de- 
scription is taken. He was shot on the road from Chemax to 
Yalahao, on the 5th of April, 1842. 
