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This section is from the book "The American Bird-Keeper's Manual", by James Mann. Also available from Amazon: The American Bird-Keeper's Manual.
This bird is about the size of the Scarlet Ta-nager, but the male is a bright vermilion, all over. The males are subject to the same changes of color as the former, having been found spotted all over with green, red and yellow, according to their age. Their stay here is very short. They hatch their young about the middle of June, and leave New Jersey about the middle of August. They are not found in Massachusetts. Their beauty is their most attractive quality; the song is a loud, sonorous trilling note.
Treatment and food the same as for the Scarlet Tanager.
The male is a bright vermilion all over, except the inner webs of the primary, or longest feathers of the wings, which are brown; this is not seen, of course, when the wings are closed. The female has the upper parts of a brownish yellow, the lower parts an orange yellow.
Found from New York to Texas, in the Middle States rather rare; not found in any of the New England States - Migratory.
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