Kingbird Phoebe Crested Flycatcher Wood Pewee 



456. Phoebe — Sayornis phoebe. 



Length 7 inches. 



No distinct wing-bars; crown blackish; upper- 

 parts grayish brown, wings and tail darker; under- 

 pays white, slightly washed with yellowish, tinged 

 with brownish gray on breast and sides; bill black. 



His habit of wagging his tail, taken together with 

 his size and pose, will always serve to distinguish 

 this flycatcher. His haunts ,too, are often diag- 

 nostic, for the nest is built in or on our buildings 

 or in a niche of shelving rock. 



461. Wood Pewee — Myiochanes <virens. 



Smaller than Phoebe. Length 6 l / 2 inches. 



Two distinct whitish wing-bars; upperparts 

 blackish olive; wing and tail blackish; underparts 

 white or washed with yellowish, tinged with olive- 

 gray on sides of throat and breast. 



This is a very common bird of the shady street 

 and open groves, where its note, pe-ee-iuee^ is more 



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