An Abnormal Scarlet Tanager. — A remarkable albino female Scarlet 
Tanager was procured at Germantown, May 8, 1888, and is now in my col- 
lection. The wings and tail are composed of pure white and ordinary 
blackish feathers in about equal proportions, while the wing-coverts consist 
of white, olive and canary-yellow feathers. All the rest of the plumage 
above and below is bright canary yellow, with one or two olivaceous feath- 
ers in the middle of the back. The legs and bill are very light pink. The 
bird was in company with several normal birds of the same species. — 
Witmer Stone, Germantown , Pa. .AjlJk, V* July, 1888. p. 3 ZZ. 
Plumf^e of some birds from upper 
So. Carolina - Leverofcl M. Loomis. 
Piranga erythromelas. — There is a marking on the under 
surface of the wing in the female and in the male in green lively 
which seems to have escaped general notice, but which renders 
both distinguishable at a glance from the female or young male 
of P. rubra. It extends from the carpal joint to the exposed 
shaft of the outer primary, and is about an inch in length and 
an eighth of an inch in width and olive brown in color. It 
corresponds to a similar black marking in the adult spring 
male. In all examples of P. rubra I have examined the region 
of the under wing-coverts is uniform yellow in the female and 
red in the adult male. Auk X, April, 1893 . p, 154 . 
S cr-wv^C COyr\ C 
Piranga erythromelas Vieill. s 
Auk, XIV, July, 1897 , p -Z 77 - 
Three adult male Scarlet Tanagers in the collection of Dr. A. K. 
Fisher have conspicuous wing markings strongly suggestive of 
those normally present in the western Piranga ludoviciana. In 
two of these birds (No. 4017, Washington, D. C., May 18, 
1890, and another taken at Sing Sing, N. Y., on May 22, 1880) 
the greater coverts are almost wholly bright scarlet. In the other 
(No. 919, Sing Sing, N. Y., May 16, 1881) the greater coverts 
are gamboge yellow narrowly edged with black. The yellow is 
brighter than that occupying the same position in P. ludoviciana 
but the bar formed by it is not so broad as that of the western 
bird. S . 3 , brx. ■ 
