Plate XLIV. Male and Female.
Male vermilion, brighter beneath; inner webs of quills brown. Female
greenish-yellow above. Young like the female; young males variegated
according to age; old females sometimes like the males, but duller.
_Male_, 7-1/2, 11.
From Texas to Massachusetts. In the interior to Canada. Abundant.
Migratory.
Summer Red Bird, Tanagra æstiva, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 95.
Tanagra æstiva, Bonap. Syn. p. 105.
Summer Red Bird, Tanagra æstiva, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 469.
Summer Red Bird, Tanagra æstiva, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 232;
v. v. p. 518.