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tanager
/ˈtæ.nə.d͡ʒəɹ/
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What does tanager mean?
noun
- Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests within the family Thraupidae.
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Birds of the tropics, two species only finding their way north, and the summer tanager rarely found north of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Tanager flew off a short distance to one side and began to cry as if in the greatest distress.
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A sudden alteration of temperature, either higher or lower, caused the birds nearly to stop feeding, and one tanager lost weight rapidly and in two weeks moulted into the olive-green winter plumage.
I was not only nearer to some of those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but to those wilder and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager,—the wood-thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field-sparrow, the whippoorwill, and many others.
One of the first objects which greeted us here was a beautiful bird we had not hitherto met with, namely, the scarlet and black tanager (Ramphoccelus nigrogularis), flocks of which were seen sporting about the trees on the edge of the water, their flame-coloured liveries lighting up the masses of dark-green foliage.