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"Tanager" Quotes from Famous Books

... striking plumage are the Bluejay, the Bluebird, the Baltimore Oriole, the Scarlet Tanager, the ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... held them was a signal for him to come down and beg for them, but his little mate never dared trust herself on the desk, though when I threw a worm on the floor she invariably secured it. So fond was she of this delicacy that she once played a saucy trick upon a scarlet tanager. Having received a worm, he went into the first open door he saw,—which happened to be the bluebird's,—to find a place to manipulate the morsel, which he never swallowed whole. Madam stood on the perch just above the entrance, and as he came in she leaned over and ...

— In Nesting Time • Olive Thorne Miller

... Marjorie, "that this is Blossom Banks! For there are three banks, one after another, just covered with wild flowers. And as true as I live there's a scarlet tanager on that bush! Don't ...

— Marjorie's Vacation • Carolyn Wells

... with a marked character. Every house had its garden, in which vines twined over arbours, and the magnolia, honeysuckle, and rose spread rich perfume of summer nights, and where the humming-bird rested, and scarlet tanager or oriole with the yellow and blue bird flitted in sunshine or in shade. Then swallows darted at noon over the broad streets, and the mighty sturgeon was so abundant in the Delaware that one could hardly remain a minute on the wharf in early morn or ruddy evening ...

— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

Words linked to "Tanager" : hepatic tanager, family Thraupidae, Piranga flava hepatica, summer redbird, Thraupidae, Piranga rubra, Piranga ludoviciana, summer tanager, firebird, redbird, scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea, oscine bird, oscine