I had recognized my first tanager from afar, ten days before, his voice and theme were so like his Northern relative's; but this time I was too hasty.

Blue jays and crested flycatchers were doing their best to outscream one another,with the odds in favor of the flycatchers,and a few smaller birds were singing, especially two or three summer tanagers, as many yellow-throated warblers, and a ruby-crowned kinglet.