Plate CCCLIV. Fig. 3. Male. Fig. 4. Female.
Male scarlet, with the wings and tail black. Female yellowish-green
above, greenish-yellow beneath, wings and tail dusky, the feathers
margined with yellowish-green. Males have been met with, having a
scarlet band on the wing, formed by the first row of small coverts.
Young like the female.
_Male_, 7, 11-3/4. _Female_, 6-1/2, 10-3/4.
From Texas to Lake Huron. Throughout the Valley of the Mississippi,
Kentucky, and Ohio. Common. Migratory.
Scarlet Tanager, Tanagra rubra, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ii. p. 42.
Tanagra rubra, Bonap. Syn. p. 105.
Scarlet Tanager or Black-winged Summer Red Bird, Swains. &
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 273.
Scarlet Tanager, Tanagra rubra, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 465.
Scarlet Tanager, Tanagra rubra, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 388.
210. 3. Pyranga Ludoviciana, Wils. Louisiana Red-bird.--Louisiana
Tanager.
Plate CCCLIV. Fig. 1, 2. Male. Plate CCCC. Fig. 4. Female.
Male with the head and throat rich carmine; lower parts, neck, rump,
and a broad band on the wing, rich yellow; middle of the back, wings,
and tail black; secondary coverts and inner secondaries tipped with
yellowish-white. Female with the upper parts yellowish-green, the fore
part of the back greyish-olive; lower parts greenish-yellow; two bands
on the wings, the anterior pale yellow, the other whitish.
_Male_, 7-1/4, wing, 3-((9-1/2)/12).
Platte River. Columbia River. Common. Migratory.
Louisiana Tanager, Tanagra ludoviciana, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
iii. p. 27.
Tanagra ludoviciana, Bonap. Syn. p. 105.
Louisiana Tanager, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 471.
Louisiana Tanager, Tanagra ludoviciana, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv.
p. 385; v. v. p. 90.