As a family, the tanagers have weak, squeaky voices, but both our species are good songsters.
In the chipping sparrow we may notice a hint of the spring change of dress which warblers and tanagers carry to such an extreme.
At the present time when the dogwood blossoms are in their full perfection, and the branches and twigs of the trees are not yet hidden, but their outlines only softened by the light, feathery foliage, the tanagers and orioles have their day.
Numbers of tanagers frequented the fruit and other trees in our garden.
Tanagers are found in America and the West Indian Islands.
Screaming macaws, in their gorgeous livery of blue, yellow, and scarlet, occasionally flew overhead, and tanagers and toucans were not uncommon.
When we remember that there are about three hundred and eighty known species of Tanagers in Tropical America, it would seem a light task to acquaint oneself with the small family at home.
The tanagersare birds of such uncommon beauty that when we have taken the pictures of the entire family the group will be a notable one and will add attractiveness to the portfolio.
The family of Tanagers includes approximately three hundred and eighty species, of which not more than ten per cent.
The family of Tanagers is remarkable for the number of species, the gaudy coloring of many and the interesting fact that they are confined to the Americas and the adjacent islands.
The Tanagers make their home in the trees, and, being of a retiring disposition, are more numerous within the bounds of the forest.
Young scarlet tanagers are very confiding and gentle in their ways, and do not seem to have much fear of man here.
Thousands of tanagers have been slaughtered to be worn on the unthinking heads of vain girls and women.
Of the three hundred and fifty species of tanagers in the tropics, only two think it worth while to visit the Eastern United States and one of these frequently suffers because he starts too early.
These great flights of the hermit warbler are intermingled with other species, Hammond flycatcher, Calaveras and lutescent warblers, Cassin vireo, and sometimes Louisiana tanagers and red-brested nuthatches.
About the only food I ever serve to the birds on this table is bananas and occasionally plantains; and my chief guests are tanagers of about half a dozen brilliant kinds, a few finches, honeycreepers, and wintering Baltimore orioles.
All the flycatchers forgot their usual diet and took to berrying as ardently as the tanagers themselves.
The blood and orange splashed on black of the toucans, the scarlet and yellow of woodpeckers, the soft greens and buffs of flycatchers, all these paled when a flock of manakins or tanagers or honey-creepers came to the tree.
Late in April, with other kinds a pair of scarlet tanagersand a pair of rose-breasted grosbeaks visited the trees.
To the great delight of their neighbors, the house-dwellers, they built their nests, the grosbeaks in a tree near one side of the porch, the tanagers in one near the opposite side.
As a family they are remarkable for the brilliancy of their colors; the common, but mistaken idea that most tropical birds are brightly clad being in no small part due to the abundance of Tanagersand beauty of their plumage.
Like most gaily costumed birds the plumages of manyTanagers undergo striking changes in color with age and season.
Frequently there were from three to nine tanagers perched in full view, occasionally calling chip cheer!
Even in the spring, when our woods ring with the joyous calls and songs of both varieties, I have never seen half the number of tanagers together.
During the morning three different waves of migrating tanagers passed, flying slowly and so low that it was easy to see and recognize them.
Vireos and tanagers vied with each other in persistent singing.
The fourteen species of Argentine Tanagers belong to ten different genera, mostly of wide distribution.
Spiza differs from the other richmondenines studied and resembles the emberizines and tanagers in the possession of the muscular band which extends from the pars interna of the m.
The richmondenines, emberizines, and tanagers are closely related and should be included in a single family, Fringillidae.
The richmondenines, emberizines, and tanagersare closely related subfamilies and are here included in the Family Fringillidae.
The tanagers merge with the Richmondeninae on the one hand and with the Fringillinae on the other.
All theTanagers of our country have pretty much the same habits.
These Tanagers aren't very plenty about here--are they, Doctor?
These Tanagers have a more southerly distribution than the Scarlet variety, but are found in the same kind of territory.
The Tanagers are quite as apt to patronize the brittle kind.
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