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THE SCARLET TANAGER. 
black, most of my young readers will doubt- 
less recognize the Scarlet Tanager. While we 
watch the gaudily dressed little fellow, he is 
joined by another bird, that, at the first glance, 
we should certainly suppose to be of another 
species ; for it is of a plain greenish plumage, 
and it has none of the beautiful notes of the 
