APPENDIX. 185 
Scarlet Tanager. (See p. 74.) 
“Their more common notes are simple and brief, resembling, accord- 
ing to Wilson, the sound chip-charr. Mr. Ridgway represents them by 
chip-a-ra’-ree. This song it repeats at brief intervals and in a pensive 
tone, and with a singular faculty of causing it to seem to come from a 
greater than the real distance. Besides this it also has a more varied and. 
musical chant, resembling the mellow notes of the Baltimore oriole. The, 
female also utters similar notes when her nest is approached ; and in their 
mating-season, as they move together through the branches, they both 
utter a low whispering warble in a tone of great sweetness and tender- 
ness. Asa whole, this bird may be regarded as a musical performer of 
very respectable merits.” — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway: North American 
Birds, Land-Birds, vol. i. p. 486. 
Mr. Nelson and Mr. Samuels find not a little of the 
robin’s song in that of the tanager; while Mr. A. P. 
Coleman, of Victoria University, Coburg, Ontario, reports 
him as singing at the Thousand Islands early in the 
summer of 1886 as follows: — 
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“During the three weeks that we heard him,” says Mr. Coleman, “he 
made no other variation, except that he occasionally repeated the last two 
notes a third time, thus filling out the bar. The notes were taken down 
by a trained musician, and if whistled give the tanager’s song exactly.” — 
Coleman, A. P.: Music in Nature. (Nature, vol. xxxvi., 1887, p. 605.) 
See also Lunt, H.: Across Lots, p. 89. 
Bright Plumage vs. Song. 
It would seem that bright plumage is not proof against 
bright song. It may be with the birds as it is with the 
