SPECIES 2. TANAGRA JESTIVA. 
SUMMER RED-BIRD. 
[Plate VI. — Fig. 3, Male. Fig. 4, Female.] 
Tanagra Mississippensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, 421, 5. — Mexican 
Tanager, Latham, Si/n. m, 219, 5, B . — Tanagra variegata, 
Ind. Orn. i, 421, 6. — Tanagra cesiiva, Ind. Orn. i, 422,7. — 
Muscicapa rubra, Linn. Syst. i, 326, 8. — Buff, vi, 252. PL Enl. 
741. — Catesb. Car. i, 56. — Merula fiammula, Sandhill Red- 
bird, Bartram, 299. — Peale’s Museum, JSTo. 6134. 
The change of colour which this bird is subject to during 
the first year, and the imperfect figure first given of it by Cates- 
by, have deceived the European naturalists so much, that four 
different species have been formed out of this one, as appears 
by the above synonymes, all of which are referable to the pre- 
sent species, the Summer Red-bird. As the female differs so 
much in colour from the male, it has been thought proper to 
represent them both; the female having never to my knowledge 
appeared in any former publication; and all the figures of the 
other, that I have seen, being little better than caricatures, 
from which a foreigner can form no just conception of the ori- 
ginal. 
The male of the Summer Red-bird (fig. 3.) is wholly of a 
rich vermilion colour, most brilliant on the lower parts, except 
the inner vanes and tips of the wings, which are of a dusky 
brown; the bill is disproportionably large, and inflated, the upper 
mandible furnished with a process, and the whole bill of a yel- 
lowish horn colour; the legs and feet are light blue, inclining 
to purple; the eye large, the iris of a light hazel colour; the 
length of the whole bird seven inches and a quarter, and between 
the tips of the expanded wings twelve inches. The female (fig. 
