PERCHING BIRDS 
605. Lark Bunting. Calamospiza mela- 
nocorys.. 
Range.— A bird of the Plains, abundant from 
western Kansas to eastern Colorado and north 
to the Canadian border; winters in Mexico. 
These black and white birds have a sweet 
song which they often utter while on the wing 
after the manner of the Bobo- 
link, all their habits being 
similar to those of this bird, 
except that this species likes 
the broad dry prairies where 
it nests on the ground under 
the protection of a tuft of 
grass or a low bush. Their 
four or five eggs are like 
those of the last but slightly larger. Size .85 
x .65. Data. — Franklin Co., Kansas. 4 eggs. 
Nest in cornfield in a hollow on the ground at 
the base of a stalk; made of straw and weeds. 
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Bluish white 
TANAGERS. Family TANAGRID^ 
607. Western Tanager. Piranga ludoviciana. 
Range. — United States, west of the Plains and north to British Columbia. 
This handsome species is black and yellow, with an orange or reddish head. 
They are common and breed in suitable localities through their range, nesting 
as do the eastern Tanagers in trees usually at a low elevation, the nests being 
saddled on the forks of horizontal branches; they are made of rootlets, strips 
of bark, and weed stalks, 
and are usually frail like 
those of the Grosbeaks. 
Their eggs, which are laid 
in May or June, are bluish 
green, specked with brown 
of varying shades. Size 
.95 x .65. Bluish green 
Lark Bunting 
608. Scarlet Tanager. Piranga erytli- 
romelas. 
These beautiful scarlet 
and black birds frequent, 
chiefly, woodlands, al- 
though they are very of- 
ten found breeding in or- 
chards and small pine 
groves. They are quiet 
birds, in actions, but their Greenish blue 
loud warbling song is 
heard at a great distance, and is readily recog- 
nized by its peculiarity. They nest upon liori- 
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