A BRILLIANT PAIR THE SCARLET TANAGER "That is my beautiful red bird!" cried Dodo, clapping her hands.

"I never shall forget the looks of his bright red coat with black sleeves and tails.

I saw a sort of green bird in the same tree, but it was so different I never thought it could be his wife, till I came to think--for the green one stayed near the nest when I came nearer and looked up, but the red bird flew away and hid behind some leaves." [Illustration: Scarlet Tanager] "You are quite lucky to have seen a Scarlet Tanager in his home woods," said the Doctor, "for he is a shy bird who does not often venture to show his tropical colors in open places.

He knows enough not to make himself a target for cannibal birds or House People either.

Except in his journeys to and from his winter home he lives in the shelter of the tallest forest trees, where it is very difficult to see him, showy as he is in his flashing colors, and even if you know by his song that he is there.