PEWIT FLYCATCHER, or PHCEBE. 



(Muscicapa atra Gm. M. Phoebe, Lath. M.fusca. Bonap. M. nunciola, 

 Wilson, ii. p. 78. pi. 13. fig. 4. Phil. Museum, No. 6t318.) 



Sp. Charact. — Dark olive-brown, darker on the head; beneath 

 pale yellowish ; bill black; tail emarginate, extending an inch 

 and a half bej^ond the closed wings ; the exterior feather whitish 

 on the outer web. 



This familiar species inhabits the continent of North 

 America, from Canada to Florida, retiring from the 

 Northern and Middle States at the approach of winter. 

 How far they proceed to the south at this season is not 

 satisfactorily ascertained ; a few, no doubt, winter in the 

 milder parts of the Union, as Wilson saw them in Februa- 

 ry in the swamps of North and South Carolina, where they 

 were feeding on smilax berries, and occasionally even 

 giving their well known notes ; but in the winter, and 

 early spring of 1830, while employed in an extensive 

 pedestrian journey from South Carolina to Florida and 



