SCARLET TANAGER. 391 
morning, almost as soon as day broke, he was again seen most active ® 
ly engaged in the same affectionate manner ; and, notwithstanding the 
insolence of the Orioles, continued his benevolent offices the whole day, 
roosting at night as before. On the third or fourth day, he appeared 
extremely solicitous for the liberation of his charge, using every ex- 
pression of distressful anxiety, and every call and invitation that na- 
ture had put in his power, for him to come out. This was too much 
for the feelmgs of my venerable friend; he procured a ladder, and, 
mounting to the spot where the bird was suspended, opened the cage, 
took out the prisoner, and restored him to liberty and to his parent, 
who, with notes of great exultation, accompanied his flight to the 
woods. ‘The happiness of my good friend was scarcely less complete, 
and shewed itself in his benevolent countenance; and I could not re- 
frain saying to myself,—If such sweet sensations can be derived from 
a single circumstance of this kind, how exquisite—now unspeakably 
rapturous—must the delight of those individuals have been, who have 
rescued their fellow beings from death, chains, and imprisonment, and 
restored them to the arms of their friends and relations! Surely in such 
godlike actions, virtue is its own most abundant reward.” 
Tanacra RuUBRA, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 314.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p. 420. 
ScarLtet Tanacer, Tanacra ruBrRa, Wilson, Amer. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 42, pl. 11, 
fig. 3. Male ; fig. 4. Female. 
Tanacra RUBRA, Ch. Bonaparte, Synopsis of Birds of United States, p. 105. 
ScarLer TanacER, or BLack-wiNcGED SumMER RED-BIRD. 
PyranGa RuBRA, ScaRLET Biack-wincED TanacER, Richards. and Swains. Fauna 
Bor.-Americana, vol. ii. p. 273. 
Adult Male in Spring. Plate CCCLIV. | Fig. 3. 
Bill rather short, robust, compressed toward the end, acute. Up- 
per mandible with its dorsal outline declinate and slightly convex, the 
ridge rather narrow, the sides convex, the edges sharp, overlapping, 
with two slightly prominent small festoons about the middle, and a 
faint notch close to the tip, which is a little declinate. Lower mandi- 
ble strong, with the angle short and wide, the dorsal line straight, the 
back broadly convex, the sides convex, the edges sharp, the tip acute. 
Nostrils round, basal. 
Head rather large, ovate, flattish above ; neck very short; body 
ovate, compact. Legs shortish ; tarsus short, compressed, rather stout, 
