SCARLET TANAGER. 
PYRANGA RUBRA. 
HE tanager, the Baltimore oriole’s only rival in 
beauty, is the less active, the less vigorous charmer 
of the two, and has less vocal power; but it would be 
difficult to imagine a more pleasing and delicate exhibi- 
tion of a bird to both eye and ear than that presented by 
this singer, in scarlet and black, as he stands on the 
limb of some tall tree in the early sun, shining, and 
singing, high above the earth, his brief, plaintive, morn- 
ing song. The tanager’s is an unobtrusive song, while the 
percussive, ringing tones of the oriole compel attention. 
The tanager can sing in the forest with only his fellow- 
birds for audience; the oriole must be out, near the earth, 
among men, to be seen and heard of them. 
For three successive years I found the tanagers in three 
different States, but not a note from one of them. In the 
spring of 1888, however, a beautiful singer greeted me, 
one summer morning, from the top of a tall oak near the 
house. He paid frequent visits to the same tree-top dur- 
ing the entire season, and generally sang the same song, 
beginning and ending with the same tones :— 
