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SCARLET TANAGER. 
three inches beyond the wings, and is nearly even at the end ; 
the bill is of a brilliant coralline colour, very thick and power- 
ful, for breaking hard grain and seeds ; the legs and feet, a 
light clay colour, (not blood red, as Buffon describes them;) 
iris of the eye, dark hazel. The female is less than the male, 
has the upper parts of a brownish olive, or drab colour, the 
tail, wings, and tip of the crest excepted, wdiich are nearly as 
red as those of the male ; the lores, front, and chin are light 
ash ; breast, and lower parts, a reddish drab ; bill, legs, and 
eyes, as those of the male; the crest is shorter, and less 
frequently raised. 
One peculiarity in the female of this species is, that she 
often sings nearly as well as the male. I do not know whether l 
it be owing to some little jealousy on this score or not, that 
the male, when both occupy the same cage, very often destroys 
the female. 
SCARLET TANAGER TANAGRA RUBRA. 
Plate XI. Figs. 3 and 4. 
Tanagra rubra, Linn. Syst. i. p. 314, 3. — Cardinal de Canada, JBriss. Orn. iii. p. j 
48, pi. 2, fig. 5 Lath. ii. p. 217, No. 3. — Scarlet Sparrow, Edw. pi. 343. — 
Canada Tanager, and Olive Tanager, Aret. Zool. p. 369, No. 237, 238. — Peak's j 
Museum, No. 6128. 
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PYRANGA * RUBRA Swainson. 
Pyranga erytbropis, Vieill. Enc. Method, p. 793. — Tanagra rubra, Ponap. Synop. 
p. 105. — Pyranga rubra, North. Zool. ii. p. 273. 
Thjs 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 j 
* Pyranga has been established for the reception of this bird as the type, and 
a few others, all natives of the New World, and more particularly inhabiting 
the warmer parts of it. The present species is, indeed, the only one which is 
common to the north and south continents ; and, in the former, it ranks only 
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