GENUS 37. TANAGRA. TANAGER. 
SPECIES 1. T. RUBRA. 
SCARLET TANAGER. 
[Plate XL — Figs. 3 and 4.] 
Tanagra rubra, Linn. Syst. i, p. 314, 3 . — Cardinal de Canada, 
Briss. Orn. iii, p. 48, PL %jig. 5. — Lath, ii, p. 217, J^o. 3. — 
Scarlet Sparrow, Edw. PI. 343 . — Canada Tanager, and Olive 
Tanager, Jlrct. Zool.p. 369, •S'o. 237 — 238. — Peale’s Museum, 
JSTo. 6128. 
This is one of the gaudy foreigners (and perhaps the most 
showy) that regularly visit us from the torrid regions of the 
south. He is drest in the richest scarlet, set off with the most 
jetty black, and comes, over extensive countries, to sojourn 
for a time among us. While we consider him entitled to all 
the rights of hospitality, we maybe permitted to examine a lit- 
tle into his character, and endeavour to discover, whether he 
has any thing else to recommend him besides that of having a 
fine coat, and being a great traveller. 
On or about the first of May this bird makes his appearance 
in Pennsylvania. He spreads over the United States, and is 
found even in Canada. He rarely approaches the habitations of 
man, unless perhaps to the orchard, where he sometimes builds; 
or to the cherry trees in search of fruit. The depth of the woods 
is his favourite abode. There, among the thick foliage of the 
tallest trees, his simple and almost monotonous notes chip, churr, 
repeated at short intervals, in a pensive tone, may be occasional- 
ly heard; which appear to proceed from a considerable distance 
though the bird be immediately above you; a faculty bestowed 
on him by the beneficent Author of Nature, no doubt for his 
protection; to compensate in a degree for the danger to which 
