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Trees, Stars, and Birds 



Finley & Bohlman 

 FIG. 217. Young black phcebes. 



than the phoebe. It shows 

 some olive color both above 

 and below and distinct whit- 

 ish wing bars. Its habit of 

 darting after flying insects 

 and coming to rest again in a 

 few seconds will help you to 

 identify it as a flycatcher. 



The sweet call of the 

 wood pewees, coming from the trees in the woods or along 

 a city street, is a pleasing sound. They spend little more 

 than a third of the year in the Northern states, going to 

 South or Central America for the winter. 



Other flycatchers. The family of the kingbird and 

 pewees includes about 400 species of flycatchers, all of 

 them American. In the Old World are numerous species 

 of flycatchers that belong to a different family. The 

 various American flycatchers resemble in habits those 

 that have been described, but most of them are to be 

 found only in warm regions where insects are abundant 

 throughout the year. The phcebe is the only one of the 

 400 species that winters in the eastern part of the United 

 States north of southern Florida. In the spring it 

 reaches the Northern states earlier than our other fly- 

 catchers. 



