n, specked with brown of varying shades.
Size .95 x .65.

608. SCARLET TANAGER. _Piranga erythromelas._

These beautiful scarlet and black birds frequent, chiefly, woodlands,
although they are very often found breeding in orchards and small pine
groves. They are quiet birds, in actions, but their loud warbling song
is heard at a great distance, and is readily recognized by its
peculiarity. They nest upon horizontal

[Illustration 371: Bluish white.]
[Illustration: Dickcissel.]
[Illustration: Bluish green.]
[Illustration: Greenish blue.]
[Illustration: Lark Bunting.]
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limbs or forks at elevations of four to twenty feet, making frail nests
of twigs, rootlets and weeds; they are often found in pine trees, but
apparently just as frequently in other kinds. Their eggs are greenish
blue, specked and spotted with various shades of brown. Size .95 x .65.
Data.--Holden, Mass., May 31, 1898. Nest on low limb of an oak, 4 feet
above ground; of weeds and rootlets and very frail.

609. HEPATIC TANAGER. _Piranga hepatica._

Range.--Western Mexico, north to New Mexico and Arizona in summer.

This species is similar to the next but is darker red on the upper parts
and bright vermilion below. They nest on the lower horizontal branches
of trees, usually live oaks, making the nests of rootlets and weeds; the
eggs are bluish green, like those of the next, but the markings appear
to average more blotchy and brighter. Size .92 x .64.

610. SUMMER TANAGER. _Piranga rubra rubra._

Range.--Eastern United States, breeding from the Gulf to New York and
Kansas, and casually farther; west to Texas; winters south of our
borders.

This bird is of the size of the Scarlet Tanager, but is of a uniform
rosy red color, darker on the back. They are very common in the South
Atlantic and Gulf States. Their nests are located at low elevations on
horizontal branches of trees in open woods, edges of clearings, or along
the roadside; the nests are made of strips of bark, weed stems, leaves,
etc., and are frail like those of the other Tanagers. Their eggs are
light bluish green, speckled and spotted with reddish brown, and not
distinguishable with certainty from those of the Scarlet Tanager. Size
.92 x .64.

610a. COOPER'S TANAGER. _Piranga rubra cooperi._

Range.--Western United States, breeding from the Mexican border and
Texas north to central California and Nevada.

Similar to but slig