THE SCARLET TANAGER. 
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As soon as the young Tanagers are hatched, 
which liappens in about twelve days from the 
time incubation is commenced, all is activity 
and bustle with the parents ; for so many 
more mouths are to be fed, and they must have 
nothing but the most delicate food. So Tana- 
ger and his wife are busy from morning until 
night in procuring nice tender caterpillars and 
spiders for them, and have but few chances for 
recreation for themselves. 
In about four weeks from their birth, the 
young Tanagers, having put on a beautifully 
mottled dress of green and reddish, like a 
mixture of that of their parents, and having 
become well-grown birds, almost as large as 
their father and mother, leave the nest, and 
follow their parents about, learning from them 
how to recognize and obtain the different kinds 
of food, and getting from them a little idea 
of the phenomena of the seasons, that they 
may safely perform the migration, in the fall, 
that all Tanagers are in the habit of making. 
Having learned these things, they are politely 
informed by their parents, that, having had 
