Western Summer Tanager 411 
Description.—Male—General colour throughout scarlet; wings and 
tail black, under wing-coverts white; iris brown, bill greyish-blue 
basally, dull greenish terminally, legs pale lavender-grey. Length 
6-25 ; wing 3-90 ; tail 2-90 ; culmen -60; tarsus -72. 
In the winter the red is replaced by greenish. The female is olive- 
green above, the wings and tail dusky with greenish edging to the 
feathers but no wing-bars; below dull greenish-yellow, purer yellow 
on the under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts white with w dusky 
border. The young male is intermediate between the female and 
adult male. 
Distribution.—Breeding in eastern North America from Manitoba 
and Nova Scotia southwards to eastern Kansas and North Carolina 
in the mountains; south in winter to the West Indies and through 
Mexico to Bolivia and central Peru. 
The Scarlet Tanager may be regarded as an occasional visitor to 
Colorado; it has been met with some half-dozen times. Berthoud 
took one near Golden in 1867, and saw another in the Del Norte Valley 
in September, 1883. Cooke saw two mounted males taken near 
Newcastle in the spring of 1892. Aiken reports the occurrence of one 
near Limon in May, 1899. There are two adult males in the col- 
lection of the State Museum of Denver (Smith 02 and 08) ; one of these 
was taken at Palmer Lake in El Paso co. on May 17th, 1902, by 
W. C. Ferril, the other near Pueblo on May 20th, 1904, by B. G. 
Voight. Rockwell states that Sullivan saw one on June 4th, 1904, 
near Grand Junction. 
Western Summer Tanager, Piranga rubra coopert. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 610a—Colorado Record—Henshaw 75, p. 239. 
Description.—Male—Throughout a rather dull crimson-red, brightest 
on the head, rump and under-parts ; wings dusky brown but edged 
with red so that the dusky is concealed in the closed wing ;_ iris brown, 
bill light brown, paler along the cutting edge; legs horny. Length 
7-2; wing 4-0; tail 3-0 ; culmen -75 ; tarsus -78. 
In the female the red is replaced by yellowish-olive, rather more 
greyish in shade in the middle of the back, and more yellowish below ; 
under wing-coverts yellow without dusky border. The dimensions 
about the same. 
Distribution.—South-west United States from central Texas to 
California ; south through Western Mexico to Colima. 
This Tanager is of accidental occurrence in Colorado. It has 
been only once obtained—by Henshaw on May 10th, 1873, near 
Denver. 
It is rather remarkable that it has not since been met with, as it is 
common in New Mexico and Arizona, The nearest point to Colorado 
