LOUISIANA TANAGER. 3x7 



female is brown, tinged with olive green on the hack ; 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, notwithstanding 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 formed 

 outwardly of slips of grape-vine bark, rotten wood, and cater- 

 pillars' webs, with sometimes pieces of hornets' nests inter- 

 woven, 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 indi- 

 viduals, 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. 



LOUISIANA TANAGER. {Tanagra Columbians.) 



PLATE XIX.— Fig. 2. 



PeaWs Museum, No. 6236. 

 PYBANGA LUDOVICIANA.—Jakdysk.* 



Tanagra Ludoviciana, Bonap. Synop. p. 105. — Pyranga erythropis, Vieill. 

 auct. Bonap. 



This bird, and the two others that occupy the same plate, 

 were discovered in the remote regions of Louisiana, by an 

 exploring party under the command of Captain George Merri- 

 wether Lewis, and Lieutenant, now General, William Clark, 

 in their memorable expedition across the continent to the 



* 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. 



