Hepatic tanager to the song of the black-headed grosbeak, another member of the Cardinalidae. The flight call is a husky and rising "weet". It looks for food in the foliage of trees, moving slowly and methodically; different individuals use different strategies. In summer, the northern form largely eats insects, spiders and some fruit. In Mexico, it has been observed to eat nectar. From Oaxaca south, it follows swarms of army ants. Even the northern population's behavior and life history are remarkably little known. Hepatic tanager The hepatic tanager ("Piranga flava") is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae),
Adjective phrase An attributive adjective (phrase) precedes the noun of a noun phrase (e.g. "a very happy" man). A predicative adjective (phrase) follows a linking verb and serves to describe the preceding subject, e.g. "The man is very happy". The adjective phrases are underlined in the following example sentences. The head adjective in each of these phrases is in bold, and how the adjective phrase is functioning—attributively or predicatively—is stated to the right of each example: The distinguishing characteristic of an attributive adjective phrase is that it appears inside the noun phrase that it modifies. An interesting trait of these phrases in