Length about seven inches. 
Arrival. May lo to 20. 
Favorite Haunts. In the woods. 
field Marks. A bird with a bright scarlet colored body havnig black 
wings and tail. . ,„ 
Song. Mellow and cheerful, "Pshaw! wait-wait-wait for me, wait! 
Note, chip churr. 
The scarlet tanager of all the birds that visit us is the most brilliantly 
colored This bird is sparingly common in Vermont. Living m the 
woods and retiring in its habits, the tanager is more plentiful than he 
appears to be. Sometimes, however, he comes out into the open and 
may be seen in the orchard and shade trees. The male appears to be con- 
scious of his conspicuous colors and tries, generally successfully, to keep 
branches of trees or leaves between you and himself. Besides being an 
object of beauty the scarlet tanager is a beneficial bird, destroying many 
kinds of insects such as flies, caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers and 
.spiders. 
CLIFF SVJ ALLOW— {Petrochclidon lunifrons.) 
Forehead whitish, crown steel-blue, throat and side of the head 
chestnut; a brownish gray ring around the neck; a steel-blue patch 
on brown breast, belly white; back steel-blue; a brown patch at the 
roots of the tail ; tail almost square. 
Length about six inches. 
Arrival. April 29 to May 15- 
Favorite Haunts. In the air, and about farm buildings. 
Field Marks. Tail slightly forked, almost square; a brown patch 
at the roots of the tail; a chestnut band across the breast. Smaller 
than the barn swallow. 
Note. A prolonged "twitter." 
•'One swallow does not make a summer" but we hail with delight 
the coming of the swallows in the spring-time for then we feel sure 
that warmer weather is at hand, as they are the first birds that reach 
us from the far away tropical regions. The eave swallow, as he is more 
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