BIRDS OF NEW YORK 



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with gray. Fall specimens have the under parts more heavily tinged with 

 yellow; under mandible light colored toward the base. 



Length 6-6.5 inches; extent 10-11; wing 3-3.45; tail 2.5-2.9, slightly 

 emarginate; bill from nostril .4; tarsus .51. 



The Wood pewee may be distinguished from the other small flycatchers 

 by its larger size, from the Phoebe by being smaller and less brown, more 

 greenish on the upper parts. Its note, however, a plaintively whistled 

 " pee-a-wee," will distinguish it at a distance better than anything else, 

 both from the Phoebe and its smaller relatives. 



Distribution. This species inhabits North America from Manitoba 

 and southern Quebec, south to Texas and central Florida, and winters 

 from Nicarauga to Peru. In New York it is universally distributed as 

 a summer resident and breeds commonly in every county of the State. 

 It arrives from the south from the 3d to the I4th of May, in cold seasons 



Photo by Clarence F. Stone 



Pewee's nest and eggs 



sometimes not appearing in the northern portions till the 2Oth or 22d of 

 the month. It is last seen in the fall between the 5th and the 25th of 

 September. A few October records, however, have come to my notice. 

 In the southern part of the State it occasionally remains until October 2d 

 and one record of October igih comes from Long Island. 



