142 THE SECOND BOOK OF BIRDS 
The WestErRN Woop PeEwee looks like his 
Eastern brother, but he is a very different bird. 
His dress is about the same, and he catches his 
flies in pewee fashion, but his voice is not in 
the least like that we hear on the Atlantic side 
of the country. 
The Eastern wood pewee has a low, sweet 
voice, of which one cannot get tired. But the 
bird of the West has loud, harsh notes, so dis- 
mal in tone that they are painful to listen to. 
His song is almost the only really unpleasant 
bird song I know. 
The nest of this bird is a rather deep cup sad- 
dled on to a large limb. When it is ina cotton- 
wood grove, it is covered with the sticky white 
cotton from the trees. It is very pretty when 
fresh, but it soon gets soiled, and then it is not 
nice to look at or to handle. 
