100 INSESSORES. 
In North and South America the Fly-catchers are 
replaced by a family whose habits and manners are 
entirely similar, but whose structure places them in 
a widely different position in the system. Their sing- 
ing organs being of the more imperfect type, they 
are assigned to the suborder Clamatores, while the 
true Fly-catchers, like the Swallows, belong to tho 
Oscine suborder. These Tyrants, or Tyrant Fly- 
catchers, as they are called, are abundant in almost 
every section of the country; there are few persons 
who have not had the opportunity of being familiar 
with the notes and appearance of many of them. 
Among the first birds which cheer our hearts at 
the approach of Spring, is the Pewee Fly-catcher, 
his soft, sweet, and not unmusical voice often sound- 
ing through the leafless grove long before the last 
traces of Winter have yielded to the softening sun- 
beams. The song of the Pewee is a sure and reliable 
prognostic of the coming of that lovely season when 
the earth again clothes herself in her beautiful gar- 
ments, and the air resounds with Nature’s sweetest 
music. The social and familiar habits of this plain 
and modest little bird, as well as his confiding trust 
in man, must ever secure for him a conspicuous place 
in our affections, and entitle him and his little prop- 
erty to our earnest and zealous protection. This 
familiarity, however, sometimes subjects him to being 
made the mark of cruel and unthinking boys, who, 
with that wilful propensity for throwing stones which 
seems to be part of a boy’s nature, are so reckless of 
consequences as to tease and torment the poor little 
