The Western Tanager in San Francisco
Journal
Condor
Volume
10
Issue
4 (July-August)
Year
1908
Pages
181
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
The Western Tanager in San Francisco
On May 6, 1908, while passing thru Lafayette Square (a park two blocks square in this city), I noticed a pair of unfamiliar birds flying from tree to tree in a eucalyptus hedge. I walked cautiously in their direction and was rewarded by being able to get within ten feet of the male bird, a Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) ; that the other was a female I am not quite so certain. This species was not included in Ray's “Summer Birtls of San Francisco County”, a paper which appeared in THE CONDOR for March, 1906.
CLARK C. VAN FLEET
San francisco, California.
