378 . THE SAY PEWEE. 
No. 145. 
DAY'S (PEWEE: 
A. O. U. No. 457. Sayornis saya (Bonap.). 
Synonyms.—Say’s PHOEBE. WESTERN PHOEBE. 
Description.—4Adults: General color drab (grayish brown to dark hair- 
brown), darker on pileum and auriculars, lighter on throat, shading thru upper 
tail-coverts to black; tail brownish black; wings fuscous, the coverts and exposed 
webs of tertials edged with lighter grayish brown; underparts below breast 
cinnamon-buff ; axillars and lining of wings light buff or cream-buff. Bill and feet 
black; iris brown. Young birds are more extensively fulvous, and are marked 
by two cinnamomeous bands on wings (formed by tips of middle and greater 
coverts). Length of adult male 7.50 (190.5); wing 4.14 (105); tail 3.23 (82); 
bill .62 (15.7) ; tarsus .79 (20). Female averages smaller. _ 
Recognition Marks.—Sparrow size; drab coloring; cinnamon-colored belly ; 
melancholy notes; frequents barns and outbuildings or cliffs. 
Nesting.—Nest: composed of dried grasses, moss, plant-fibers, woolly ma- 
terials of all sorts, and hair; placed on ledges, under eaves of outbuildings, under 
bridges, or on cliffs. Eggs: 3-6, usually 5, dull white, occasionally sparsely dotted. 
Av. size, .77 x .59 (19.6x 15). Season: April 20-May 10, June 1-15; two broods. 
Yakima County April 24, 1900, 5 young about five days old (eggs fresh about 
April 7th). 
General Range.—\Vestern North America north to the Arctic Circle in 
Alaska, Yukon Territory, etc., east to Manitoba, western Wyoming, western 
Kansas, etc., breeding thruout range, south to Arizona and northern Lower 
California; southward in winter over northern and central Mexico. 
Range in Washington.—Common summer resident east of the Cascades 
(chiefly in Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition life-zones), rare or casual west of 
the mountains. 
Migrations.—Spring: c March 15; Okanogan County March 17, 1896; 
Ahtanum (Yakima Co.) Feb. 20, 1900. 
Authorities.—Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, Vol. II. 1895, p. 277. (T). 
IDEs Ilo. IDA, SS See. Je 1B 
Specimens.—P". Prov. C. 
A GENTLE melancholy possesses the Pewee. The memory of that 
older Eden once blotted by the ruthless ice-sheet, still haunts the chambers of 
the atavistic soul and she goes mourning all her days. Or she is like a Peri 
barred from Paradise, and no proffer of mortal joys can make amends for 
the immortal loss ever before her eyes. Kuteéw, kuteéw! 
In keeping with her ascetic nature the Pewee haunts solitary places, 
bleak hillsides swept by March gales, lava cliffs with their solemn, silent 
bastions. Or, since misery loves company, she ventures upon some waterless 
