12 SUMMER REDBIRD. 



though the eggs, to judge from the few that have fallen under the notice of naturalists, 

 are recognizably diiferent. It is scarcely necessary, therefore, to add my own experiences 

 with this bird: these would only confirm the conclusions draw^n from what has gone 

 before. But in closing another chapter of the 'Birds of the Colorado Basin' — a w^ork 

 that has haunted and besought me for a decade of years, since the destruction of 

 my old Arizona manuscripts, as a spirit that would not be laid, and is now^ become 

 embodied — I am happy to recall, with something of its early freshness, the picture of 

 this brilliant bird, set in the sad-hued fohage of the pine trees, just as a sunny spot 

 breaks here and there amongst the closely-crowded memories of a sombre past. (Coues.) 



NAMES: Looisiana Tanager, Crimson-headed Tanager. — Louisiana Tangara (German). — Pyranga h face 

 rouge (Vieill.). 



SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Tanagra ludoriciana Wils. (1811). PIRANGA LUDOVICIANA Rich. (1836). 

 Pyranga erythropis Vieill. (1819). Pbcenicosoma ladovicianum Giebel (1876). Tanagra colambiana 

 Jard. 



DESCRIPTION: "Male: Yellow; the middle of the back, the wings, and the tail black. Head and neck all 

 round strongly tinged with red; least so on the sides. A band of yellow across the middle coverts, 

 and of yellowish-white across the greater ones; the tertials more or less edged ■with whitish. 

 Female: Olive-green above, yellowish beneath; the feathers of the interscapular region dusky, mar- 

 gined with olive. The wings and tail rather dark brown, the former with the same marks as the 

 male. 



"Length, 7.25 inches; wing, 3.60; tail, 2.85 inches." (Ridgway.) 



SUMMER REDBIRD. 



Pirangra rubra ViEiLLoT. 



Plate XIX. 



"O AMERICAN city known to me is so rich in fine shade-trees and subtropical 

 W^ plants than Jacksonville, Florida. Although the grayish-white sandy soil looks 

 very unproductive, the avenues of shade-trees, consisting mostly of water-oaks and some 

 magnolias, are hardly surpassed anywhere in the South. Large and broad, densely set 

 with foliage and spreading branches, these magnificent oaks lend a great charm to the 

 city. It was a fine day early in April when I for the first time strolled through the 

 most beautiful part of the city. Only a few days ago I had admired the luxuriant 

 camelhas and Indian azaleas at Pensacola and the wealth of roses at Tallahassee; I 

 had roamed about in the woods of the Chattahoochee and Suwanee rivers, where many 

 strange and beautiful plants were first seen and admired. But here at Jacksonville 

 many of the most exquisite shrubs and trees of the southern temperate zone and the 

 tropics were seen in the gardens and pleasure grounds. Dense pittosporums S gardenias, 



I Plttosporum iobira. 



