XELSALL — SCARLET TANAGER IN TRINIDAD. 
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Tanagra rubra Linn. 
Syns : — Pyrangra rubra, P. erythropis, Vicill. 
Cardinal de Canada, Briss. 
Scarlet Sparrow, Edwards. 
Canada Tanager, Arct. Zool. 
A specimen of this brightly-colored species (a male, in 
nearly full plumage) which has not been hitherto noticed as 
a visitor to this island, was shot at St. Ann’s on the 25th 
April, 1868. It was brought to Mr. Libert’s, of Port-of- 
Spain, where the skin was preserved, and where I first saw 
it a short time afterwards, when it was shown to me as ano- 
ther species ( Pyrangra cestiva , locally called “Cotinga rose”) 
which is not very uncommon in Trinidad. On examination, 
however, I discovered it to be the Scarlet Tanager. and on 
my pointing this out to Mr. Libert and informing him that 
this was the first known instance of its occurrence in the 
island, he very kindly presented it to me for the purpose of 
being added to the Leotaud Collection, now in the Council 
Boom at Government-House. 
The Scarlet Tanager, being migratory, has a very wide 
range of distribution, being found as far north as Canada 
during the summer ; whilst it passes the winter months in 
the warmer regions of the south. In the West-Indian 
islands it is probably not even a winter resident, but a bird 
of passage merely touching on its way north in spring. It 
is closely allied to a species very similar in appearance, 
which is found in Brazil, but, on close examination, may bo 
distinguished from it by several slight, but sufficiently cha- 
racteristic, differences. 
