Summer Red Bird, Tanagra æstiva, Wils. Amer. Ornith. vol i. p. 95. Pl. vi. fig. 3. Male, fig. 4. Female.
Adult Male. Plate XLIV. Fig. 1.
Bill rather short, robust, tapering, compressed, acute; upper mandible a little convex in its dorsal outline, convex on the sides, the acute edge slightly notched near the tip, which is a little declinate; lower mandible also a little convex in its dorsal outline, with the edges inflected. Nostrils basal, lateral, round. Head large. Body rather long. Feet shortish; tarsus compressed, anteriorly scutellate, about the length of the middle toe; outer toe united at the base to the middle one; claws arched, compressed, acute.
Plumage soft, blended, glossy. Wings of ordinary length, the second quill longest. Tail slightly emarginate, of twelve acute feathers.
Bill yellowish-brown above, bluish below. Iris hazel. Feet and claws light greyish-blue. The whole plumage is vermilion, brighter on the lower parts, excepting the tips and inner webs of the quills, which are tinged with brown.
Length 7¼ inches, extent of wings 11; bill along the ridge 7⁄12, along the gap 1; tarsus ⅚.
Adult Female. Plate XLIV. Fig. 3.
The general colour above is light brownish-green, the sides of the head and the under parts generally brownish-yellow; larger wing-coverts dusky, edged with yellow; quills deep brown, externally margined with yellowish-red; tail-feathers of the same colour. The bill, eyes and legs are of the same tints as in the male.
Dimensions nearly the same.
Young Male. Plate XLIV. Fig. 2.