LOUISIANA TANAGER. 
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female is brown, tinged with olive green on the back ; breast, 
dirty white, or slightly yellowish. The bill in both is truly 
that of a warbler ; and the tongue, slender, as in the Motacilla 
genus, notwithstanding the habits of the bird. 
The food of these birds is the seeds of the pitch pine, and 
various kinds of bugs. The nest, according to Mr Abbot, is 
suspended from the horizontal fork of a branch, and formed 
outwardly of slips of grape-vine bark, rotten wood, and 
caterpillar’s webs, with sometimes pieces of hornet’s nests 
interwoven ; and is lined with dry pine leaves, and fine roots 
of plants. The eggs are four, white, with a few dark brown 
spots at the great end. 
These birds, associating in flocks of twenty or thirty indi- 
viduals, are found in the depth of the pine barrens ; and are 
easily known by their manner of rising from the ground, and 
alighting on the body of the tree. They also often glean 
among the topmost boughs of the pine tree, hanging, head 
downwards, like the Titmouse. 
LOUISIANA TANAGER TANAGRA COLUMBIANUS. 
Plate XIX. Fig. 2. 
Peale's Museum , No. 6236. 
PYRANGA? LUDOVICIANA. — Jardine.* 
Tanagra Ludoviciana, Bonap. Synop. p. 105. — Pyranga erythropis, Vieill. auct. 
Bonap. 
This bird, and the two others that occupy the same plate, 
were discovered in the remote regions of Louisiana, by an 
exploring party under the command of Captain George Merri- 
wether Lewis, and Lieutenant, now General, William Clark, 
in their memorable expedition across the Continent to the 
* It is impossible to decide the generic station of this bird. It appears 
very rare ; and it is probable that the British collections do not possess any 
specimen. — Ed. 
