LOUISIANA TAN AGER. 207 
Its note is a simple, reiterated cheruy continued for four or five 
seconds, - . 
Catesby first figured and described this bird; but so imperfectly, as 
to produce among succeeding writers great confusion, and many 
mistakes as to what particular bird was intended. Edwards has sup 
posed it to be the Blue-winged Yellow Warbler! Latham has sup- 
posed another species to be meant; and the worthy Mr. Pennant has 
been led into the same mistakes ; describing the male of one species, 
and the female of another, as the male and female Pine Creeper. 
Having shot and examined great numbers of these birds, I am enabled 
to clear up these difficulties by the following descriptions, which will 
be found to be correct : : 
The Pine-creeping Warbler is five and a half inches long, and nine 
inches in extent ; the whole upper parts are of a rich green olive, with 
a considerable tinge of yellow; throat, sides, and breast, yellow; 
wings and tail, brown, with a slight cast of bluish, the former marked 
with two bars of white, slightly tinged with yellow; tail, forked, and 
edged with ash; the three exterior feathers, marked near the tip with 
a broad spot of white; middle of the belly and vent-feathers, white. 
The female is brown, tinged with olive green on the back; breast, 
dirty white, or slightly yellowish. The bill in both is truly that of a 
Warbler; and the tongue, slender, as in the Motacilla genus, notwith- 
standing the habits of the bird. : ; 
The food of these birds is the seeds of the pitch pine, and various 
kinds of bugs. The nest, according to Mr. Abbot, is suspended from 
the horizontal fork of a branch, and Emed outwardly of slips of grape- 
vine bark, rotten wood, and caterpillars’ webs, with sometimes pieces 
of hornets’ nests interwoven; and is lined with dry pine leaves, and 
fine roots of plants. The eggs are four, white, with a few dark brown 
spots at the great end. - 
These birds, associating in flocks of twenty or thirty individuals, 
are found in the depth of the pine barrens; and are easily known by 
their manner of rising from the ground, and alighting on the body of 
the tree. They also often glean among the topmost boughs of the 
pine-tree, hanging, head downwards, like the Titmouse. 
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LOUISIANA TANAGER.— TANAGRA COLUMBIANUS. — Fic. 93. 
Peale’s Museum, No. 6236 
PYRANGA? LUDOVICIANA, —Jarp wwe. * 
Tanagra Ludoviciana, Bonap. Synop. p, 105. — Pyranga erythropis, Vieill. auct. 
é Bonap. 
Tus bird, and the two others that occupy the same plate, were 
discovered in the remote regions of Louisiana, by an exploring party 
* It is impossible to decide the generic station of this bird. It appears very rare 
and it is probable that the British collections do not possess any specimen. —ED 
