230 SCARLET TANAGER, OR BLACK-WINGED RED-BIRD. 



Bill and feet as in the male. The general colour of the upper parts is 

 yellowish-green, tinged with grey, of the lower parts greenish-yellow; the 

 feathers of the wings and tail greyish-brown, margined with yellowish-green, 

 the secondaries and tail-feathers narrowly tipped with greyish-white, the 

 lower wing-coverts and the edges of all the quills white. 



Length to end of tail 6| inches, to end of wings 5§, to end of claws 6i; 

 extent of wings lOf. 



The young when fledged resemble the female; the males being, however, 

 distinguishable from the females by their brighter tints. 



The young male in autumn, after the first moult, has the lower parts of a 

 much brighter yellow, the upper of a lighter green, but with all the feathers 

 having a central black mark, those on the head oblong, on the middle of the 

 back broad, on the rump linear. The wing-coverts are black; the quills and 

 tail-feathers brownish-black, margined with yellowish-green. 



Two males in my possession, shot by Dr. Trudeau, 

 are remarkable for having the first row of small coverts 

 scarlet, forming a conspicuous band amidst the black 

 of the wing, and the lower wing-coverts tipped and 

 margined with the same. In all other respects, how- 

 ever, these individuals agree with the others. 



An adult male examined. The roof of the mouth 

 is concave, with a median prominent ridge and two 

 more prominent lateral ridges, between which and the 

 edges is a broad groove for the reception of the lower 

 mandible. The tongue is G twelfths long, deeply 

 emarginate and papillate at the base, flat above, with a 

 median groove, the tip horny and pointed, but ter- 

 minated by several flattened bristles or shreds. (Eso- 

 phagus, a b c, 2} 2 inches long, its diameter 4^ twelfths, 

 until its entrance into the thorax, when it contracts a 

 little. Proventriculus, b c, | inch long, and 3^ twelfths 

 in diameter. The stomach, c d e, is a strong gizzard, 

 S twelfths long, 7 twelfths in breadth, its lateral 

 muscles moderately thick; the epithelium rugous and 

 dark reddish-brown. Intestine, /# h, 1\ inches long, 

 its average diameter 2^ twelfths, its narrowest part 2 

 twelfths. The rectum ij, 10 twelfths long; the cceca, 

 i, f of a twelfth long, and \ twelfth in diameter. 



The trachea is 2 inches long, its diameter l£ 

 twelfths, and nearly uniform; the rings about 60. 

 The contractor and sterno-tracheal muscles are slender; 

 and there are four pairs of inferior laryngeal. 



