Capture of the Summer Red Bird on Long Island. — On May 16, 
1883, my cousin, a boy of about fourteen, brought me a couple of bird£ 
which he had shot in this place. I found them to be very much mutilated 
and hardly fit to be mounted, but I took the skin of one, as it was new to 
me, and laid it away. On examining Audubon’s ‘North American Birds’ 
lately, I saw that the skin I had was that of the male Summer Red Bird. 
I believe that the other bird, which I threw away at the time, it being too 
much mutilated to do anything with, was a female of the same species. 
It was only a few days ago that I learned that this bird is quite rare in 
this section, and so communicate the particulars. The skin was also iden- 
tified by Dr. A. K. Fisher. The boy who shot the two birds above men- 
tioned told me at the time that he had seen others of the same kind, but 
could not shoot them. — W. F. Hendrickson, Long Island , N. T. 
Auk, I, July, 1884. p. X. *10 f t 
Long Island Bird Notes. Wm.Dutcher 
21. Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager. — While at Sag 
Harbor recently I found among some mounted birds in the shop 
of Lucas & Buck, an adult specimen of this species which was 
shot some time in May, 1885, near the village of Bridghampton. 
Mr. Ivan C. Byrarn, of Sag Harbor, wrote me that on April 7, 
1886, a friend shot a strange bird. It was unfortunately eaten by 
a cat, which did not know its value as a specimen. From the 
description given of the bird I have no doubt but that it was 
correctly identified by Mr. Byram as a Summer Tanager. Mr. 
Albert Lott, of Merrick, Queens Co., sent one to rne tor 
identification. He wrote that it was shot by a neighbor, May 14, 
rS86. At the time it was killed it was near his hives catching 
the bees. It did not eat any portion of them except the head. 
It had been about the place for three or four days. 
Auk, 3, Oct., 1886. p. , 
Bird Notes from Long Island, N. Y. 
William Dutoher. 
21. Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager. — Mr. Giraud does not include 
this species among the Long Island birds, nor does Mr. George N. Law- 
rence include it in his catalogue. If 
The former says, when speaking of the Scarlet Tanager (. Piranga ery- 
thr omelets) : “This species is the only one of the Genus that is found in 
this vicinity.** The latter states, “ I have seen it in the Magnolia Swamps 
of the New Jersey coast near Atlantic City, but never met with it any 
further north.” Since my previous records* I have had two additional 
specimens reported to me by Mr. John C. Knoess, who writes : “I have a 
beautiful specimen, killed last April (1886) at Manor, Suffolk Co., and 
another at Promised Land, also in Suffolk Co. They are the first I ever 
saw on the Island.” Can it be that this species is extending its range 
northward ? 
Auk, V, April, 1888. p.181 ~ . 
IT Catalogue of Birds observed on New York, Long, and Staten Islands, and the ad- 
jacent parts of New Jersey. Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., VIII, p. 286, April, 1886. 
** Birds of Long Island, p. 136. 
* Auk, Vol. Ill, 1886, p. 442. 
[52.1.] Piranga rubra (Linn.). Summer Tanager. — I took a female 
in perfect plumage, at Highland Falls, New York, May 12, 1883. Meas- 
urements (No. 2583, E. A. M.) : length, 7.00; alar expanse, 11.40; wing, 
3.60; tail, 2.80; culmen, .60; gape, .77; tarsus, 74; middle toe and claw, 
.75; claw alone, .22 inch. Irides hazel. Bill greenish olive. Legs and 
feet bluish gray ; claws brownish. Mearns, Auk, Vll. Jan. 1890 . p. > 
