Western Tanager
607. Piranga ludoviciana. 6½ inches.
Found from British Columbia to southern California, breeding in mountains. Three or four eggs, bluish green, spotted with brown (.95 ×.75).
Hepatic Tanager
609. Piranga hepatica. 7½ inches.
A pale colored bird as compared with the Scarlet Tanager of the east, lacking also the black wings of its eastern brother. The female is a pale yellow on the under parts and an olive above. Their range is throughout Arizona and into Mexico. The nest is built upon horizontal branches of trees at varying heights from the ground, and is made of twigs, grass and hair, usually a frail structure, in which they lay four eggs of a greenish blue, spotted with shades of brown (.92 ×.64).