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, 113/4. Female, 61/2, 103/4.
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, 71/4, wing, 39½/12.
Platte River. Columbia River. Common. Migratory.